[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom. — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
“We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery. — James Forten Copy Share Image
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position… — Linda Hirshman Copy Share Image
“Heroes deal out vengeance, wiping out insults, and in an existential sense denying their own death. In twentieth-century camps, however, Todorov found,… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together,… — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image
“If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
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