“I forgot that in the land of my birth the shadows are too dense for light to penetrate.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. — Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Copy Share Image
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Enslavement can come in many guises and the denial of knowledge is one such tragic example inflicted on humanity.” — Alastair Agutter Copy Share Image
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The slave is held most securely when he is held by the chains of his own will and of his own fears,… — Michael Bunker Copy Share Image
They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The anti-slavery parties were also called spoilers, including the Republican party that went on not just to abolish slavery but they actually… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
“She had been expected to learn the subtleties of court life, and while mastery of these arts would have never gained her… — Joseph Brassey Copy Share Image
Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for LIBERTY! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
“And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people...… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence!—fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet panting for deliverance from their awful thraldom!—fortunate for the cause… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“These three creation stories were shaped in the patriarchal, slave-holding world of early urban civilization in the eastern Mediterranean of the second… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Nobody's about saving anymore. No one cares about a rainy day anymore. Nobody saves up enough for even an umbrella for a… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration. — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
“no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on,” — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. — John Milton Copy Share Image
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
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