The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“O, you happy free women, contrast your New Year's day with that of the poor bond-woman! With you it is a pleasant… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can… — William H. Seward 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
There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are. — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
