No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery. — David Swanson Copy Share Image
It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Slavery isn’t Black history,” I point out. “It’s everyone’s history.” A” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose. — Lalita Tademy Copy Share Image
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of… — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong. — Euripides Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Don't look like you're going to cry all the time." She scowled. "Tears are one of their favourite drinks around here.” — L.C. Perry Copy Share Image
Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing.… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you look at the history of slavery in the United States, and you see the impact that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' had,… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“The influences and associations that had always surrounded him, blinded him to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“What could be better for slave owners than slaves who think they’re free? This is the greatest trick ever pulled: a nation… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
