“In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. — David Wilmot Copy Share Image
Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I don't want to give too much lugubrious thought to the gravitas of a coherent album. I don't want to develop a… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery. — Dan Geer Copy Share Image
“It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was… — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Copy Share Image
In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave,… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“I still worry about Africa, we are slaves to western and Eastern Brands and we do not cherish and love our own.… — Tare Munzara Copy Share Image
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
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