“There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Losing your job releases you from the contract of giving a piece of your life daily” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
“The world dominance of Great Britain enabled it to impose its anti-slavery edicts on many other sovereign nations.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
It's easy to let ourselves off the hook and say, 'Oh, I would never own slaves.' Because this is in the DNA… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey.… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“In the 1860s the leaders of the cotton belt made one of the most prodigious miscalculations in recorded history. On the eve… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“«Since when you have taken people for slaves and they were born free»” — Umar ibn Al-Khattab Copy Share Image
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity. — Granville Sharp Copy Share Image
You think than you are free to do whatever, but in fact you are a slave of doing whatever. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves. — James Madison Copy Share Image
