It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us.… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery. — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image
Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
“There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in… — Manu Herbstein Copy Share Image
What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November… — Questlove Copy Share Image
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union.… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always!… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended… — Benjamin Zephaniah Copy Share Image
“I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of… — Lucy N. Colman Copy Share Image
Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
“The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“In 1821, the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to West Africa to buy, on what was known as the “Pepper… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
