Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
“questions which none seemed able to answer :How is it that white folks have everything and we have nothing? Slavery-how and why… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
“I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
“It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Enslaved to passing shadows. My dreams fade further away. I Begin to hear the faintest mumbles drone within my ear. These voices… — JMartinez Copy Share Image
... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country… — Idi Amin Copy Share Image
I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason. Then slavery came and… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“In addition, the most reliable and recent studies of African tribal culture demonstrated that slavery was a long-standing custom among the Africans… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic criminal activities. That's… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — W. H. Auden 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 no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after… — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
“Robert Bunch, revealed that less than a quarter of the Southern population owned all 3.5 million slaves. Even if slavery were abolished… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
“Here we find the roots of American wealth and democracy—in the for-profit destruction of the most important asset available to any people,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Summer turns and marches away, fed up with being handled like a child. Like she’s a glass doll that might break at… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed,… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
