The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Some things are not worth dying for, but without them life is not worth living.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Two-sentence horror story: I woke up in a country founded on the genocide of native peoples and the enslavement of imported ones.… — Miles Garrett Copy Share Image
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No!… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa],… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“slavery was an economic institution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and had built up the… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not… — Plato Copy Share Image
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Slavery happened. That flag stands for segregation. We have monuments to Civil War generals and slave owners, as well as preserved plantations.… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
“words ‘ebed and doulos has been undertaken with particular attention to their meaning in each specific context. Thus in Old Testament times,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” — International Reading Association Reading Today Online Copy Share Image
“A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom. — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image