There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Slavery is simply a possession of the mind, before the individual submits their spiritual component to the will of another person or… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“For the African race, such as Providence has made it, and where He has placed it in America, slavery was the righteous,… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image
Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery,… — John Oliver Killens Copy Share Image
“To ameliorate & raise the standard of the workingmen to the bourgeois level, is perhaps to create a race of slaves content… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. — Robert Treat Paine Copy Share Image
“What is the true story of Fantine? It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Slavery is as old as civilization, and has been practiced all over the world. It was ubiquitous in antiquity, and is taken… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not;… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which… — John J. Crittenden Copy Share Image
People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win…This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands…But people who… — Kenneth Roberts Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the… — Charles Chaplin Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
“In his home, no one around him saw anything wrong with the tyranny. Slavery was as customary as prisons are today. Few… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am Gods slave, not that of… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery. — Charles Chilton Moore Copy Share Image
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo… — George Grey Copy Share Image
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“A person can be removed from slavery in an instant, but it takes a lifetime for slavery to be removed from a… — Lecrae Moore Copy Share Image
Freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends. — William Walker Copy Share Image
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only… — Maria Weston Chapman Copy Share Image
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