“Too much freedom seems to change into nothing but too much slavery, both for private man and city.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“We’re not descendants of slaves. We’re descendants of free people who were enslaved.' Francia Márquez Mina, Afro-Colombian Vice President of Colombia” — Francia Márquez Mina Copy Share Image
“In Rome, too, slaves were the sunshine of every day and the nightmare of every night. Slavery stoked the empire’s life and… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held'… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“When people think of slavery, they think of whips, chains and neurological implants. While these things may be necessary, the real tools… — Kalin Ringkvist Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery… That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing,… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Slaves wait for freedom to fall like music upon their ears whereas kings strive to take it by force” — Fadel Chehade Copy Share Image
How can people love you ,even you know to yourself ,you hurts them the way you treats them..So even your are the… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all… — Fountain Hughes Copy Share Image
The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white… — Roman Baldorioty de Castro Copy Share Image
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
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