“Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.” — Julius Ceasar Copy Share Image
Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom! — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“The human race comes from Africa, but inhumanity originated in Europe.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all… — Fountain Hughes Copy Share Image
The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white… — Roman Baldorioty de Castro Copy Share Image
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing,… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa],… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the other person all attributes of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“And yet by nature the servants are born free; for no man is by nature a slave.” — Philo of Alexandria Copy Share Image
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“LIberty is slavery. Or, well, you already know. P.S. Can you find my logo in the image?” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the triple sin of slavery, genocide, and land theft. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
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