There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery.… — Eliza Griswold 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
The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“In mechanical terms, humans are quite efficient converters of food into energy, so human slaves were often more valuable than animal slaves,… — David Christian Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November… — Questlove Copy Share Image
We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
My message is, is that although some of you didn't agree with the actions we took, now let's work together to rebuild… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
We, the Black people of America, were chosen by Allah: Not to be "special" in the sense that we are better than… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
"We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
How do you talk about the Holocaust? How do you talk about slavery? Probably the best thing to do is just be… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
I finally got to watch 'Roots' in my mid-teens, on a video rental. Slowly and meticulously Roots fed its black characters through… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators]… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defenselessness, destitution. A squalid… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of the culture, and… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
What Thomas DiLorenzo misses is that the other abolitions were either very limited as in the liberation of the serfs by Alexander… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
First then, it is apparent, horribly apparent, that the slavery question rides insolently over every other everywhere - in fact that is… — Henry L. Benning Copy Share Image
As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had… — John Brown Gordon Copy Share Image
While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
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