In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
“By the early eighteenth century, every Virginia county had a militia of landless Whites “ready in case of any sudden eruption of… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights. — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism.… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
“To the RKO motion picture camera at her 100th birthday party: “I pray for the day when working men and women are… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Here, then, is the origin of Negro slavery. The reason was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
“But the language of slavery does more than merely picture the gospel. In fact, it is central to the message of salvation.… — John F. MacArthur Jr Copy Share Image
Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
“When I speak of God, I mean that god who prevented man from putting forth his hand and taking also of the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud,… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington Copy Share Image
A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Banning the institution of slavery itself long remained only a distant hope in much of Africa and the Middle East, even after… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty. — John Baldwin Buckstone Copy Share Image
“The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. — Plato Copy Share Image
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
