Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is… — John Brown Baldwin Copy Share Image
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne? — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
