Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
“It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne? — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
“It's not an honour to be saddled wit a foreman's job, it's slavery.” — Akinbode Oluwaseun Micheal Copy Share Image
The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Government wants to provide the little but the sufficient so that you keep cool and quiet while you are being a slave… — Carlos A Copy Share Image
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's… — Robert Falls Copy Share Image
“The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“The tyger's tail thumped behind her. 'This stunted little world breaks my heart,' she said. 'So much here has stagnated and died.… — S.F. Said Copy Share Image
“A man is always a little shamefaced on his wedding day, like a fox caught in a baited trap, ensnared because his… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The story of slavery is everybody's story. It is the story about how we're all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of… — Lonnie Bunch Copy Share Image
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“We in this room have no private properties. Perhaps one or two of us may own the homes we live in, or… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I wrote 300 books to escape the system, to buy my freedom, to escape slavery. Whoever thinks they need a job, is… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery. — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
“Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.” — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
