Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine,… — Mary Griffith Copy Share Image
“Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision: "Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are… — Peter cox Copy Share Image
I suspect, too, that the modern debates represent the effort of candidates with widely-varying constituencies and special interests to please to tip… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom -… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The best time to do anything, get drunk, surf, run, take a walk, gamble, make love, get high, watch a movie, read… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
“In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in… — Manu Herbstein 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
As a white, female, half-Jewish writer, when I read 'The Underground Railroad,' it reminded me that America isn't just the sort of… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our people historically have gone through a lot. That is our story. You can trace it all the way back to slavery.… — Donovan Bailey Copy Share Image
“Larsson was an active and lifelong feminist, partly for personal reasons but also because he saw that ending gender slavery was as… — Elizabeth Farrelly Copy Share Image
Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
This is what I hold against slavery. May come a time when I forgive - cause I don't think I'm set up… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
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