If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“slavery was an economic institution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and had built up the… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not… — Plato Copy Share Image
Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by… — Leonard Bacon Copy Share Image
I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“He told his story through autobiographies that garnered him wide acclaim (and a warrant for his life—as we know, he fled to… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Do you realize how many people of this country have been educated, have grown up, who have been taught that, yeah, we're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Henry,” Robbins said, looking not at him but out to the other side ofthe road, “the law will protect you as a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
“The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she’d taken it hard.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free society by reference… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Some things are not worth dying for, but without them life is not worth living.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity. — Granville Sharp Copy Share Image
“«Since when you have taken people for slaves and they were born free»” — Umar ibn Al-Khattab Copy Share Image
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
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