The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope,… — Joy Degruy Leary Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and… — Angelina Grimke 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
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of… — John Brown Copy Share Image
“Jimmy said, "We survived slavery. Think about that. Not because we were strong. The American Indians were strong, and they were on… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“Although the First Testament talks about slavery, Middle Eastern slavery was not an inherently oppressive institution like the European slavery accepted under… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies… — Trent Franks Copy Share Image
“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition… — William Silverman Copy Share Image
Whenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family… — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
We still have slavery of all kinds - slavery of thought, slavery of ideas, slavery of cultureand I think 'Roots' exemplifies, in… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Two hundred years ago when slavery was going on it was illegal to educate a slave, particularly to teach them to read.… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with… — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of… — Laura Antoniou Copy Share Image
“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
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