Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. — Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Copy Share Image
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“I forgot that in the land of my birth the shadows are too dense for light to penetrate.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery; — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
“They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
I am very cynical. That is absolutely what police is doing. But you don't even have to be cynical. I mean, politicians… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
“Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Up until now, women have depended completely upon men for their survival. You're dealing with thousands of years of history, where sexual… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Throughout history we have seen the tyranny of the powerful over the less powerful - think of the history of colonialism or… — Mary C. Gentile Copy Share Image
“Virginia lawmakers made slave patrols compulsory for non-slaveholding Whites; these groups of White citizens were charged with policing slaves, enforcing discipline, and… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't somebody have the same legal rights as everybody else in our society? What is that about? I don't even understand… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“Moreover, the industrial revolution in the United States, as in most of Europe, depended significantly upon a slave trade that involved elaborate… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
