Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
“Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
“Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form.… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into… — James McBride Copy Share Image
When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been… — Edward Livingston Copy Share Image
Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church,… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil... — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I had rather starve to death here, being a free man, than to have plenty in slavery. I cannot be a slave… — Benjamin Drew Copy Share Image
I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
