Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
We need a Slavery Remembrance Day... we also need to accord dignity and respect to the enslaved people... with a Congressional gold… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery. — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither… — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by… — Leonard Bacon Copy Share Image
Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“I hope you're not proposing to enslave us,' said Twoflower. Marchesa looked genuinely shocked. 'Certainly not! Whatever could have given you that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may*… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
It is important to honor and remember the millions of individuals who suffered the horrors of slavery. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed. — James Oglethorpe Copy Share Image
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze… — Dudley Randall Copy Share Image
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
“So, your friends call you Bastian. Your enemies call you asshole. What do lovers call you?” “Why do you want to know?”… — Rachel Grant Copy Share Image
You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
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