All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after… — Gus Hall Copy Share Image
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent's expectations. We are slaves… — Mahima Martel Copy Share Image
To me, as I see it, reparations would be something that is fairly specific to the descendants of slaves, and it would… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is.… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“We in this room have no private properties. Perhaps one or two of us may own the homes we live in, or… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I wrote 300 books to escape the system, to buy my freedom, to escape slavery. Whoever thinks they need a job, is… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of… — Amy Watkins Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“A man is always a little shamefaced on his wedding day, like a fox caught in a baited trap, ensnared because his… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When you look at the history of slavery in the United States, and you see the impact that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' had,… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington Copy Share Image
But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust… — Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if “having been freed from… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
![“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/00c/thomas-jefferson-43_change_single-acts-of-tyranny-may-be-ascribed-t_5515.jpg)
![“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of offenses--like child support. They were getting harsher punishments and longer sentences than their white counterparts. That way, the cotton could still get…” quote by Amy Watkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9a4/amy-watkins-140356_black-men_since-1865-when-the-thirteenth-amendment_484167.jpg)
![“[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.” quote by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/298/nicholas-d-kristof-and-sheryl_equality_s-ex-trafficking-and-mass-rape-should-no_2340789.jpg)
