If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance, and corresponds to those things… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.” — M.F. Moonzajer 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 think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“You must abolish your slavery yourselves. Do not depend for its abolition upon god or a superman. Remember that it is not… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“The lives of the older Da Silvas were empty and sad. They mourned the Slave Trade as a lost Golden Age when… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery,… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
