If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“History, I always think, is our reality check. And understanding it in places like Liverpool's International Slavery Museum is an essential part… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society… — Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Slavery is the nagging, unrelenting shame of America that continues to deny the true promise of the country to too many its… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave,… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much… — Don E. Fehrenbacher Copy Share Image
“Untouchability shuts all doors of opportunities for betterment in life for Untouchables. It does not offer an Untouchable any opportunity to move… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I think all Americans need to recognize that, as tragic and horrible as slavery was, as big an economic shadow as it… — Lonnie Bunch Copy Share Image
“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I don't want to give too much lugubrious thought to the gravitas of a coherent album. I don't want to develop a… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God, let him go to the Bible...I said that slavery was… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work.… — Patricia Rozema Copy Share Image
“Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law… — Marion Barry Copy Share Image
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“No one is more vulnerable to fear than a man who keeps another in bondage. He will do anything to prevent justice… — Jane Jensen Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina… — Saidiya Hartman Copy Share Image
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