Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars. — Sanford Biggers Copy Share Image
Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime. — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery, — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet. — Kate Miller Copy Share Image
It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is… — Ousmane Sembene Copy Share Image
“If you touch one grain of this accursed tea, you are undone. America is threatened with worse than Egyptian slavery.” — Joseph Cummins Copy Share Image
“These are the woes of Slaves; They glare from the abyss; They cry, from unknown graves, "We are the Witnesses!” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery...No, I will not… — Harriet Jacobs Copy Share Image
“To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit.… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“I am well aware that one can't get along without domineering or being served. Every man needs slaves as he needs fresh… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices… — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
“(it is striking that when slavery was abolished, the British government paid compensation, not to the men and women so inhumanely pressed… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery.… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of… — Amy Watkins Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Enslaved to passing shadows. My dreams fade further away. I Begin to hear the faintest mumbles drone within my ear. These voices… — JMartinez Copy Share Image
... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
“I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The first reason for mans inner slavery is his ignorance, and above all, his ignorance of himself. Without self-knowledge, without understanding the… — George Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“It's painful fighting for freedom. Freedom has demands. To begin, we must admit we're slaves.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage. — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image