Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on. — Ludacris Copy Share Image
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I think enslavement has evolved to what may seem appropriate to this day's generation. Modern enslavement is imprisonment. — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery.… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of… — George Grey Copy Share Image
“It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for LIBERTY! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“She had been expected to learn the subtleties of court life, and while mastery of these arts would have never gained her… — Joseph Brassey Copy Share Image
“There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“By 1750, Rhode Island was recognized as the nation’s most active trading center for slaves.7 In 1774, Newport was declared the most… — Cynthia Mestad Johnson Copy Share Image
In terms of America, I think any profound consideration is bound to return us to the notion of twins because, though you… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“What's the story here, Karl?' Kevin asked. 'Hard as it is to believe, these people are slaves,' Karl explained. 'Slaves?' I asked… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life. — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books,… — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not… — Gamaliel Bailey Copy Share Image
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation… — William Labov Copy Share Image
“How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
“There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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