Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
“Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
“12. “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” Abraham Lincoln” — Rriiver Nyile Copy Share Image
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes,… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“If Blacks did not violently resist, then they were cast as naturally servile. And yet, whenever they did fight, reactionary commentators, in… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Glittering things can screw very much,Why we behind is not by the desire, it is by the passion.The desire has end ,… — Sumesh Nair Copy Share Image
All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“In our humble12 opinion, the South in general’s attitude regarding the war and everything that came after needs a major paradigm shift.… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
“Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“There are no gods, paladin. There is no afterlife, no eternal reward. You, in fact, are a slave to a creature you… — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“Negro slavery, thus, had nothing to do with climate. Its origin can be expressed in three words: in the Caribbean, Sugar; on… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Financial inequity for African Americans has been perpetuated by companies that are known to have benefited from the institution of slavery. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t let her come back whole and that, I think, really symbolizes her not coming back whole. Antebellum slavery didn’t leave… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the… — William Loughton Smith Copy Share Image
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another:… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm a worker, but I think that all workers get an idea of what to do to get free. Any kind of… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term;… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
“Slavery is as much about the psychological control of the master over the slave as of the physical domination, cruelty and exploitation… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
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