“Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society,… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
“For most of the history of civilization, the practice of slavery was the rule rather than the exception.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse? — Fredro Starr Copy Share Image
Someday our grandchildren will very likely look back at the individual, selfish control of the wealth of the world by a small… — Corinne McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether… — Slobodan Milosevic Copy Share Image
“it means what it say," Ethel said. "It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of Ham… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks.… — Thomas R. Martin Copy Share Image
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words… — M. K. Asante Copy Share Image
How many demons and people are enslaved here? (Jericho) Define slavery. (Asmodeus) Kept against their will. (Jericho) Good definition. Counting me? (Asmodeus)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“Miranda was shocked to hear Nicholas speak of slavery in glowing terms, as an efficient agricultural system. This wasn't the South! Yet… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“I watched these young people read to the audience parts of history that placed our country in context. I felt, in that… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short,… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandise by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No!… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities. — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance. — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
“Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
