The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation… — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them,… — Anonymous 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
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
“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the… — Julian Beck Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“the elite of our people” had, in his quiet way, escaped slavery. In 1841 Joseph Willson, dentist, of Philadelphia, published Sketches of… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever… — Malik Zulu Shabazz Copy Share Image
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My family is from Jamaica, it's why I don't do 'Who Do You Think You Are' because within two or three generations… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
“the American physician Samuel Cartwright identifying in 1851 a mental disorder, drapetomania, evident only in slaves. The sole symptom was “the desire… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I felt entangled now: this March, this South, this war, history. History could not possibly let the South get away with slavery;… — Cynthia Bass Copy Share Image
In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the slave system grew, the South's leaders felt they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“But the language of slavery does more than merely picture the gospel. In fact, it is central to the message of salvation.… — John F. MacArthur Jr Copy Share Image
By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based,… — Kevin Bales 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
Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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