My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes,… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“If Blacks did not violently resist, then they were cast as naturally servile. And yet, whenever they did fight, reactionary commentators, in… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible… — Bill James Copy Share Image
The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the… — Julian Beck Copy Share Image
“It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Slavery didn’t end when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Slavery still happens. Right now, today, this very second, there’s someone in chains,… — Jack Wilder Copy Share Image
You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of… — Annette Gordon-Reed Copy Share Image
“Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“If a person did all the work of a slave but had the option of quitting at any time without being physically… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of… — George Grey Copy Share Image
“It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for LIBERTY! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“She had been expected to learn the subtleties of court life, and while mastery of these arts would have never gained her… — Joseph Brassey Copy Share Image
“There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
The anti-slavery parties were also called spoilers, including the Republican party that went on not just to abolish slavery but they actually… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
“I am well aware that one can't get along without domineering or being served. Every man needs slaves as he needs fresh… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery.… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices… — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
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