Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
Even when I became cognizant of this societal problem in this country, I asked my father and my mother if they knew… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had… — John Brown Gordon Copy Share Image
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“A man is always a little shamefaced on his wedding day, like a fox caught in a baited trap, ensnared because his… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda] — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family… — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
Take away greed, the fear of human progress, modern day slavery, Machine mind and heart, One world power, then Humanity will be… — Jasari Copy Share Image
“Your answer is the logical, coherent answer an absolutely normal person would give: It's a tie! A lunatic, however, would say that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which… — John J. Crittenden Copy Share Image
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image