The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“When the infernal machine of plantation slavery began to grind its wheels, iron laws of economics came into play, laws that would… — Derek Bickerton Copy Share Image
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Alliances with other nations lead to bondage," Zechariah explained. "Joseph started out as Pharaoh's trusted advisor in Egypt, but later generations ended… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
Even when I became cognizant of this societal problem in this country, I asked my father and my mother if they knew… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
“If you are not strong enough to fight you have no choice but to accept the life of a slave. The hunter… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The mind has its needs, just as the body does. The latter are the foundations of society; from the former emerge the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Off course, life has no point. If it had, man would not be free. He'd become a slave to that point and… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery?… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Here’s an assignment for my fellow Christians: Go to YouTube, search for any video of ‘slaughterhouse animal cruelty’, watch it, the whole… — Shenita Etwaroo Copy Share Image
Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough),… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words… — M.K. Asante Copy Share Image
This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been… — Edward Livingston 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
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in… — Abraham Lincoln 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
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
