And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is… — Elizabeth Van Lew Copy Share Image
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange -… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“Forced partings were common in the antebellum South. A slave in some parts of the region stood a 30 percent chance of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
“An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance, and corresponds to those things… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery! — John Brown Copy Share Image
Under slavery, families were ripped apart, and it was a desire of black men and black women to be together with their… — Derrick Grayson Copy Share Image
“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
“A slave is one who sells his soul to save his life. A master is one who gives his life to save… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Those Who Are Slaves Of Desire, Are Slaves To The Whole World. But To Those For Whom Desire Itself Is A Slave,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
