By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended… — Benjamin Zephaniah Copy Share Image
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
In 1855, a former American slave remarked: "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
“When the mother was delivered into the trader's hands, she said, "You promised to treat me well." To which he replied, "You… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“chain kept moving, and Ball led the file down through Virginia into North Carolina at a steady pace. As the days wore… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Illegal immigrants are sold into slavery. It's a massive issue with Hispanic women and children - and even men. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery,… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the Caribbean had their breastfeeding time limited so that they could breed more slaves for their owners.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery. — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“Any property taken away from others, whether by stealth, fraud or violence, must be wrong: but to take away men themselves, and… — Ottobah Cugoano known as John Stuart Copy Share Image
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
