Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the other person all attributes of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Whenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking. — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
In terms of America, I think any profound consideration is bound to return us to the notion of twins because, though you… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
