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
Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery… — James Otis Copy Share Image
It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery. — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in… — Luigi Pirandello 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
“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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