I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery… — James Otis Copy Share Image
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Debt is a form of slavery not prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment; but it is a form of voluntary servitude that is… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious,… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. — Democritus Copy Share Image
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of… — Lucy N. Colman Copy Share Image
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all… — Albert G. Brown Copy Share Image
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more… — Bob Edwards Copy Share Image
[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda] — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Both animal and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
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