Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has… — Anohni Copy Share Image
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew… — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be honest, it was slavery. Nobody should have any romantic ideas about working underground. It's very, very dangerous. You always knew… — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and… — George Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America.… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
“Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for… — Horace Porter Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
“It is especially important to remember that the ownership of humans is possible too; not in terms of actual slavery, which they… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, we were Africans involved in a unique lexicon of beliefs, lore, stories, and customs that were designed to… — Stephanie Rose Bird Copy Share Image
“In 1821, the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to West Africa to buy, on what was known as the “Pepper… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Slaves dream of freedom, commoners dream of becoming kings, what do kings dream of?” — Frederick Pohl Copy Share Image
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
