Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'. — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good. — Shannon Elizabeth Copy Share Image
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
Until we really heal the wounds that we dealt with during slavery, I don't think we'll be a fully realized country. — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul. — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are some things for which there is no apology, and on the question of slavery, there is no adequate apology for… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in… — Albert Parsons Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I think what is being pointed out by African-Americans is that from slavery forward they have been living in a supposed democracy… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
People speaking into handheld devices while they walk down the street and saying to the device, "I'm walking down the street now."… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Oh! How heavily the weight of slavery pressed upon me then. I must toil day after day, endure abuse and taunts and… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of… — Annette Gordon-Reed Copy Share Image
There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
