We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
“Slavery as a moral issue never interested Ethel. If God had not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn’t be in… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being… — Nathan Huggins Copy Share Image
It is troubling that modern slavery is a crime that can be hidden in the supply chains of the goods and services… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our… — Megan Smolenyak Copy Share Image
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Lincoln, Douglas and their contemporaries struggled to decide what the words “all men are created equal” really meant. Stephen A. Douglas and… — Georgiann Baldino Copy Share Image
“The system was psychological and physical at the same time. The slaves were taught discipline, were impressed again and again with the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We've always had the blame-America crowd. We've always had the hate-America crowd. But we've now had at least two generations of education… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The first reason for mans inner slavery is his ignorance, and above all, his ignorance of himself. Without self-knowledge, without understanding the… — George Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Like most blacks in Philadelphia, Eliza was free. She said Philadelphia was the best city for freed slaves or freeborn Africans.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.” — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world! — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as… — Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale Copy Share Image
The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
“They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery; — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
