“the life of a slave must be different from a master but living life its self is the same” — mariam Copy Share Image
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved.… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
“Slavery was as customary as prisons are today. Few could imagine an ordered world without them.” — Ibram X. Kendi 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
“I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed, The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.” — Solomon Northup 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
My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“Summer turns and marches away, fed up with being handled like a child. Like she’s a glass doll that might break at… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust… — Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,”… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Are you so simple as to assume that the Big Surrender banished the concept of human slavery from the earth? What is… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image