Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master. — Albert Parsons Copy Share Image
The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Slavery and the Bible? First Corinthians 7:21 told slaves to take the opportunity to be free. Let me put forth that God… — Gina Turner Copy Share Image
We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Ni dieu ni maître! (Neither God nor master) [Feminist and labour slogan translated to 'No gods, no masters']” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Negro slaves, one-twentieth of the population in 1670, were one-fourth in 1730. “Slavery, from being an insignificant factor in the economic life… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering… — David Walker Copy Share Image
“If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“For example, at the fall of Rome there was very extensive slavery everywhere in Europe; by the time of the “Renaissance” it… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison Copy Share Image
But the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. And America came along as the first country to end it… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery! — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.” — D. Morgenstern Copy Share Image
As far as sex slavery goes, in Canada, if the woman has a Canadian accent, I'm confident that she hasn't been trafficked… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
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