“You cannot discover your soul under the shackles of slavery.” — Saptadeep Basu and Mamta Sharma Copy Share Image
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery. — Jamison Green Copy Share Image
'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth century industrial society had created a new class of slaves,” — F. H. Buckley Copy Share Image
I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire. — William Styron Copy Share Image
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave! — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.” — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end… — Somaly Mam Copy Share Image
“How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
Slavery was one of the worst crimes against humanity and endured by those who built our great nation. — Al N. Green 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
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
... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“If a person did all the work of a slave but had the option of quitting at any time without being physically… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“While slaveowners worked vigorously to allow slaves only so much biblical teaching as to make them good, docile, submissive slaves, even the… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“The influences and associations that had always surrounded him, blinded him to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“What could be better for slave owners than slaves who think they’re free? This is the greatest trick ever pulled: a nation… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
![“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d22/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_angry_some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-i_883791.png)
