When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still… — James Forten 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
“Abolish all white teachers from schools and universities across the world, and replace them with noncaucasians, and the human race will be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct. — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Those Who Are Slaves Of Desire, Are Slaves To The Whole World. But To Those For Whom Desire Itself Is A Slave,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
“He slid his hands to the back of her neck, fumbling for the necklace’s clasp. He undid it and held the chain… — Susanna Fraser Copy Share Image
“The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she’d taken it hard.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We… — Majid Kazmi Copy Share Image
If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Santería was traditionally an unacknowledged and underappreciated aspect of what it meant to be Cuban. Yet the syncretism between the Yoruban religion… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image