Slavery was one of the worst crimes against humanity and endured by those who built our great nation. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
“Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
“I think incompatibility of temper began when it was made plain to us that we get all the opprobrium of slavery while… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end… — Somaly Mam Copy Share Image
“How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“He slid his hands to the back of her neck, fumbling for the necklace’s clasp. He undid it and held the chain… — Susanna Fraser Copy Share Image
“I had rather starve to death here, being a free man, than to have plenty in slavery. I cannot be a slave… — Benjamin Drew Copy Share Image
America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery,… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special… — John Bright Copy Share Image
You can't take our people from Africa and put us in a diaspora and spread us all over the world. And we… — Eric D. Thomas Copy Share Image
The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union… — Régis de Trobriand Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness… — Albert Meltzer Copy Share Image
Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have… — David W. Blight Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave… — Solon Copy Share Image
“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
It is our collective duty to confront the past, recognize the legacy of slavery, and pay homage to those who suffered from… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine. — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom. — Kathryn Lindskoog Copy Share Image
“To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my… — Anaximenes Copy Share Image
Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery. — William Wallace Copy Share Image
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave. — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
“With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us.… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
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