Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. — Ira Berlin Copy Share Image
I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being… — Nathan Huggins Copy Share Image
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As far as sex slavery goes, in Canada, if the woman has a Canadian accent, I'm confident that she hasn't been trafficked… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism.… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The thing about the black market is, it’s racist. White children make useful slaves, too.” — M.C. Humphreys Copy Share Image
