In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are. — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in… — Moby Copy Share Image
The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day… — Jefferson Davis 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
I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is… — John Brown Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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