I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget. — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery. — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
“The world dominance of Great Britain enabled it to impose its anti-slavery edicts on many other sovereign nations.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be honest, it was slavery. Nobody should have any romantic ideas about working underground. It's very, very dangerous. You always knew… — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and… — George Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
“There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America.… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
“I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was… — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Copy Share Image
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“by the 1840s the North had built a complex, industrialized economy on the backs of enslaved people and their highly profitable cotton… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“American slavery was specifically racist slavery. It could not exist apart from racism, and could not be separated from it. Slavery was… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . .… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
