[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I can't think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to… — Candace Owens Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
“Thoughtout life, we all live our lives assuming two roles, the role of a slave and the role of a master. It… — Nathanael Kanyinga Copy Share Image
If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union.… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Dead white guys built this country. Show some gratitude and show some reverence. But as far as slavery, yeah. It's part of… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
“few years after Ball was herded south, a slave trader marched a coffle past the US Capitol just as a gaggle of… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“Work or die’—this is the essence of slavery, of compulsion. And yet this is our world. Most of our world is enslaved… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
“The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
“It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from… — Annette Gordon-Reed Copy Share Image
I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned? — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I'm capable—" "Three hours after we met, you sold yourself into slavery and then died." Well, yes, it sounded bad when he… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“He was also one of the twelve Presidents of the United States to own slaves, which is a larger figure than the… — Jarett Kobek Copy Share Image
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds… — Olara Otunnu Copy Share Image
“The reasons for slavery, wrote Gibbon Wakefield, “are not moral, but economical circumstances; they relate not to vice and virtue, but to… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Addiction originally meant a different kind of strong connection: in ancient Rome, being addicted meant you had just been sentenced to slavery.” — Adam Alter Copy Share Image
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