You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Losing your job releases you from the contract of giving a piece of your life daily” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The British had this idea they were heroes in the anti-slavery movement but they also were beneficiaries of the slavery trade. It… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that. — Freddie Gibbs 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
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
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
There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
To me, as I see it, reparations would be something that is fairly specific to the descendants of slaves, and it would… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is.… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
“No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent's expectations. We are slaves… — Mahima Martel Copy Share Image
“Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was… — Andrew P. Napolitano Copy Share Image
“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
