Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever? — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical. — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
So when the slaves got back from the fields, they was too tired to revolt against they masters. So what we're sayin'… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
“The 1860s ushered in a number of changes that profoundly transformed the nation. While the emancipation of enslaved people and the increased… — Jim Downs Copy Share Image
The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“It was not that “slave trade profits” flowed through some fiendish channels into the dark satanic mills. But the burgeoning Atlantic trade… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice Copy Share Image
“Even when the 13th Amendment was passed to abolish slavery with an exception of servitude as a penalty for criminal conviction, the… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary,… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and… — John B. Keane Copy Share Image
Never become a slave to your own thinking and your own self. Understand that you are continuously changing. But, in which way… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine. — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I used to think of Hackney in a really good light, now it's too much linked to slavery, too much. And then… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“The slave is held most securely when he is held by the chains of his own will and of his own fears,… — Michael Bunker Copy Share Image
They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery...No, I will not… — Harriet Jacobs Copy Share Image
“To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
