The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes. — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Even a slave may rise from the dust, and whet his gaze into a knife, and tell his master, "You will never… — Greg Keyes Copy Share Image
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
“A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. — George Mason Copy Share Image
Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well. — Marisol Nichols Copy Share Image
“Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice… — Jose Maria Morelos Y PavónJose Maria Morelos Y Pavón Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Up to now, I have never served nor become a messenger for any foreign power or interest. I am an enemy to… — Woldeab Woldemariam Copy Share Image
A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
“Every master loves to fuck a slave. It is a law of nature, or maybe culture.” — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
“You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
“He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
