The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
“To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.” — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. — Butterfly McQueen Copy Share Image
“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Slavery was abolished in 1355 because of church teachings stating that all men are equal in the eyes of God.§” — Christina Johansson Robinowitz Copy Share Image
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’ — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery— boredom.” — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of them… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“He slid his hands to the back of her neck, fumbling for the necklace’s clasp. He undid it and held the chain… — Susanna Fraser Copy Share Image
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“In fact, all known societies above the very primitive level have been slave societies—even many of the Northwest American Indian tribes had… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Now we have to understand that slavery would not have ended if it was left to the Africans alone, Now, Europe understood… — Femi Kuti Copy Share Image
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“To have a museum chronicling the great crime that was African slavery in the United States of America would be to acknowledge… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Slavery is not a horror safely confined to the past; it continues to exist throughout the world, even in developed countries like… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I mean, is the guy in the $5,000 necklace going to care about slavery? COME ON! — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
“within every technological advancement lie the seeds of tyranny and slavery.” — Michael Bunker Copy Share Image
“Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image