You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
“Every master loves to fuck a slave. It is a law of nature, or maybe culture.” — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage...You'll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.” — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he… — Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire Copy Share Image
I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The slavery debate alerts us to self-justifying tendencies at work in how we use the Bible. Whenever our interpretation leads to injustice,… — Alice Mathews Copy Share Image
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life… — Dorothy Day 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
“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
