Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin,… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
“A simple proof that they are a kind of robot: if the era and civilization they live in worshipped "ugliness," they too… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“It's owed to us through immunities of our individualities but we're deceived and become surety. Sure to be if we grow in… — Jose R. Coronado Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do… — Richard Rumbold Copy Share Image
“Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more… — CrimethInc Copy Share Image
“Freedom's never been free, there's always been a price to be paid, but people have forgotten; they're handing their freedom, their lives,… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law.… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
My brother has two children now, so I've been playing aunt Renee. They're two and four. It's chaos. Moms out there, kudos… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and… — David Bradley Copy Share Image
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The American Dream has really good PR. It's kind of difficult to live in the United States and not on some level… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery.… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
“And, since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race, how did it come about that… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In China, the rich enslaved the poor, and in England and Scotland and all over the world, one person, through his power… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
“It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Rendering moral judgements in retrospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. Yet… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
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