“Under certain circumstances slavery has some obvious advantages. In the cultivation of crops like sugar, cotton and tobacco, where the cost of… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
“But while the people advocating reparations have changed over time, the response from the country has remained virtually the same. “They have… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the… — Culbert Olson Copy Share Image
“Time. So much of our human experience is bound up in time, I muse. It reflects in our everyday colloquialisms, and drives… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
“So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
“The Matrix can feel like a pretty hopeless place. I get that. Nobody in his or her right mind (a tiny minority,… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“What made Bacon’s Rebellion especially fearsome for the rulers of Virginia was that black slaves and white servants joined forces. The final… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“All that a man has in this world is his own will, the freedom to do what he desires. Taking away that… — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From their resilience through the brutalities of slavery to the ongoing fight for equity, African Americans have played a critical role as… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
“You may get me to say the word, but know this, you will never truly own me. That right belongs to my… — Kitty Thomas 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
I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
“America's 1st Arab spring came in the guise of the Civil War...when our nation couldn't stomach the abomination of slavery anymore. One… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 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
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held'… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“When the mother was delivered into the trader's hands, she said, "You promised to treat me well." To which he replied, "You… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
In 1855, a former American slave remarked: "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
