Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history? — Perry Marshall Copy Share Image
Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“A man could be outwardly obedient, but tardiness revealed his inner determination, proof that slavery affects only the body. It does not… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been… — Edward Livingston Copy Share Image
Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One of them confessed to Paul that his tribe had heard stories about the fiercely cannibalistic ways of white men. Paul's first… — Monte Reel Copy Share Image
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“by the 1840s the North had built a complex, industrialized economy on the backs of enslaved people and their highly profitable cotton… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“American slavery was specifically racist slavery. It could not exist apart from racism, and could not be separated from it. Slavery was… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the… — Angela Davis 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
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery. — Klas Pontus Arnoldson Copy Share Image
