“It’s just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It’s always the lesser of two evils.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.” — Barry Estabrook Copy Share Image
“You would really sacrifice your pride over the fate of a handful of slaves?” — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be. — Sukarno Copy Share Image
Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master. — Albert Parsons Copy Share Image
The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Addiction originally meant a different kind of strong connection: in ancient Rome, being addicted meant you had just been sentenced to slavery.” — Adam Alter Copy Share Image
It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their… — Josephine Bakhita Copy Share Image
Housing in New York City has become too expensive for many average wage earners, let alone people with marginal incomes, who find… — Solly Granatstein Copy Share Image
It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Some people cling to the belief that the Civil War was fought over states' rights. But history is not on their side.… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
“The returns from cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy, and by the time of the Civil… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“{ Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll , whom he translated into Norwegian } I am very sorry that, when I… — Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Copy Share Image
“If the Baron meets with a parcel of negro ships carrying whites into slavery to work upon their plantations in a cold… — Rudolph Erich Raspe Copy Share Image
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image