Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery. — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget. — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever? — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical. — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
So when the slaves got back from the fields, they was too tired to revolt against they masters. So what we're sayin'… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
“Here, then, is the origin of Negro slavery. The reason was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based,… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the… — Julian Beck Copy Share Image
“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.” — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery. — Lawana Blackwell 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
“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
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