How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery? — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery? — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
We might be the master of our own thought, still we are the slaves of our own emotions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“A year before he died, Charles Sumner explained his lifelong quest to a friend: “My hope has been to help mankind, and… — Stephen Puleo Copy Share Image
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. — George Mason Copy Share Image
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of… — Erik Dammann Copy Share Image
“It's very foolish from your side to think that you are free. You Obey language POV: There are rules in each language,… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
One thing which Stephen A. Douglas was temperamentally incapable of doing was admitting he was wrong. He always believed that 'popular sovereignty'… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Enslavement to God signifies liberation from all other forms of servitude, and although modern man may think that he is liberated, he… — Donald W. Flood Copy Share Image
“I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“This book was written so that we may take heed and remold our story. I am certain that when enough of us… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image