“The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought… — Epicurus 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
Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of… — Erik Dammann Copy Share Image
As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom. — Kathryn Lindskoog Copy Share Image
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A year before he died, Charles Sumner explained his lifelong quest to a friend: “My hope has been to help mankind, and… — Stephen Puleo Copy Share Image
Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often,… — Alicia Keys 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
“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world! — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already… — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image