The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves. — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral &… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of… — Annette Gordon-Reed Copy Share Image
“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?" — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting. — Victor Gollancz Copy Share Image
“One could call a master a good master because he did not whip his slaves, but ultimately he was still and owner… — Nick Lake Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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