“From their arrival around 1619, African people had illegally resisted legal slavery. They had thus been stamped from the beginning as criminals. In” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left—no, nor despair— To break his teeth… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“Surely slavery was not tolerated in Kentucky, surely not in Lexington, which the captain so often called the Beautiful City. Everything would… — David Dick Copy Share Image
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in… — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was not really possible for slavery to die peacefully and quietly, while everyone waited hat in hand for the mills… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Although the First Testament talks about slavery, Middle Eastern slavery was not an inherently oppressive institution like the European slavery accepted under… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
And verily for everything a slave loses there is a substitue,but the one who loses Allah wil never find anything to replace… — Islam Copy Share Image
Under slavery, families were ripped apart, and it was a desire of black men and black women to be together with their… — Derrick Grayson Copy Share Image
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery! — John Brown Copy Share Image
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“A slave is one who sells his soul to save his life. A master is one who gives his life to save… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
