“When someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“May we all stand tall together in the face of those forces, here and elsewhere, that seek to enslave us.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
“I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery. — Raoul Peck 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
“It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by… — Leonard Bacon Copy Share Image
Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course… — Jeremy Corbyn 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
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“What's the story here, Karl?' Kevin asked. 'Hard as it is to believe, these people are slaves,' Karl explained. 'Slaves?' I asked… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the… — Culbert Olson Copy Share Image
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image