“(it is striking that when slavery was abolished, the British government paid compensation, not to the men and women so inhumanely pressed… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“But the language of slavery does more than merely picture the gospel. In fact, it is central to the message of salvation.… — John F. MacArthur Jr Copy Share Image
Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based,… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Work or die’—this is the essence of slavery, of compulsion. And yet this is our world. Most of our world is enslaved… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
“My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There's something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Here, then, is the origin of Negro slavery. The reason was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
“To the RKO motion picture camera at her 100th birthday party: “I pray for the day when working men and women are… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over.… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I think many Dutch just don't know the history of Black Pete, that he is rooted in slavery, and how he was… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness.… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
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