Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. — William Weld Copy Share Image
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No!… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its… — Toni Morrison 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
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
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
It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and… — Hazel Henderson 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
I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Guilt is imposed by others on you. It is a strategy of the priests to exploit. It is a conspiracy between the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term;… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The story of slavery is everybody's story. It is the story about how we're all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of… — Lonnie Bunch Copy Share Image
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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