Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. — Democritus Copy Share Image
The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all… — Albert G. Brown Copy Share Image
If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted… — Sheikh Abdullah Copy Share Image
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Our touchstones of slavery are 'Song of the South,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Birth of a Nation.' It's hard to… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Jimmy said, "We survived slavery. Think about that. Not because we were strong. The American Indians were strong, and they were on… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of… — John Brown Copy Share Image
“Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
“Both animal and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda] — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more… — Bob Edwards Copy Share Image
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The ruthless engine of cotton required its fuel of African bodies. Crisscrossing the ocean, ships brought bodies to work the land and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so. — John Norman Copy Share Image
Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We need a foreign policy which responds to challenges like forced marriage, and which speaks to the particular needs of women and… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom… — Wasif Ali Wasif Copy Share Image
“Slavery and serfdom, while not unknown in tribal societies, expand enormously under the aegis of states.” — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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