“Man is, by nature, a slave of numbers; by nurture, a slave of slaves.” — Khayri R.R. Woulfe Copy Share Image
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. — Homer Copy Share Image
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.” — Paulo Coelho 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
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of thepeople who compose the nation; and that can be done only by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been… — Edward Livingston Copy Share Image
We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of… — Swami Vivekananda 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
