The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves. — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't let your loyalty become slavery. If they don't appreciate what you bring to the table... Then let them eat alone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often,… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks.… — Thomas R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I had rather starve to death here, being a free man, than to have plenty in slavery. I cannot be a slave… — Benjamin Drew Copy Share Image
America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery,… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special… — John Bright Copy Share Image
You can't take our people from Africa and put us in a diaspora and spread us all over the world. And we… — Eric D. Thomas Copy Share Image
The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism,… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“Even when the 13th Amendment was passed to abolish slavery with an exception of servitude as a penalty for criminal conviction, the… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary,… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The slave is a living tool, just as a tool is an inanimate slave. Hence” — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery. — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image