Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master. — John Norman Copy Share Image
“Greed will build a religion out of crypto currency and then man will have a true god whom they can worship.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“If a person did all the work of a slave but had the option of quitting at any time without being physically… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she’d taken it hard.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free society by reference… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“He told his story through autobiographies that garnered him wide acclaim (and a warrant for his life—as we know, he fled to… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Do you realize how many people of this country have been educated, have grown up, who have been taught that, yeah, we're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Henry,” Robbins said, looking not at him but out to the other side ofthe road, “the law will protect you as a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain. — David Batstone Copy Share Image
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