Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery, — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong. — Euripides Copy Share Image
The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well. — Marisol Nichols Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or… — William Pitt the Younger Copy Share Image
“Even a slave may rise from the dust, and whet his gaze into a knife, and tell his master, "You will never… — Greg Keyes Copy Share Image
This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words… — M.K. Asante Copy Share Image
“When the infernal machine of plantation slavery began to grind its wheels, iron laws of economics came into play, laws that would… — Derek Bickerton Copy Share Image
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Alliances with other nations lead to bondage," Zechariah explained. "Joseph started out as Pharaoh's trusted advisor in Egypt, but later generations ended… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
Even when I became cognizant of this societal problem in this country, I asked my father and my mother if they knew… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Santería was traditionally an unacknowledged and underappreciated aspect of what it meant to be Cuban. Yet the syncretism between the Yoruban religion… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“The fact remains that women and children were left vulnerable to sickness and disease, manipulative slaveholders, and even apathetic Union officers during… — Jim Downs Copy Share Image
It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice… — Kenneth Cloke Copy Share Image
“Well," said St. Clare, "suppose that something shoul bring down the price of cotton once and forever, and make the whole slave… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need. — Eugenio Maria de Hostos Copy Share Image
“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.” — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
