Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“How is it possible that we should need money to live on a planet that we were born on? Like many others… — Michael Tellinger Copy Share Image
If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based,… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
In truth there is only one freedom - the holy freedom of Christ, whereby He freed us from sin, from evil, from… — Justin Popovic Copy Share Image
The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
American chattel slavery was practically defined by the fundamental instability of Black families. The institution rested on the expropriation of the reproductive… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days… — Maria Firmina dos Reis Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.” — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“It is in my mind that a people faced with death or slavery as their only choices are not readily going to… — Manda Scott Copy Share Image
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“they ask for water we give them sea they ask for bread we give them sea they ask for life we give… — M. Nourbese Philip Copy Share Image
“How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished?” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet… — Jane Porter 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
Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Quite so," answered the young lord. "It is the problem of slavery, and we try to solve it by amusing the slaves.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
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