The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou's poem 'Still I Rise' encapsulates the spirit of Slavery Remembrance Day, as it commemorates the resilience and strength to overcome… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history. — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“The best time to do anything, get drunk, surf, run, take a walk, gamble, make love, get high, watch a movie, read… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
“In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in… — Manu Herbstein Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Our people historically have gone through a lot. That is our story. You can trace it all the way back to slavery.… — Donovan Bailey Copy Share Image
“Larsson was an active and lifelong feminist, partly for personal reasons but also because he saw that ending gender slavery was as… — Elizabeth Farrelly Copy Share Image
As a white, female, half-Jewish writer, when I read 'The Underground Railroad,' it reminded me that America isn't just the sort of… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively,… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“But then, if it’s the case that we can care about citizens and the police, shouldn’t the rallying cry just be All… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Our biggest oppressor is our mind. There results of it are seen on black on black hate . Look how black people… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“MOST NATIONS HAVE AT ONE TIME OR OTHER BOTH condoned and practiced slavery. Greece and Rome founded their societies on it. India… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“French Enlightenment philosophers liked to use slavery as a symbol of human oppression, and particularly political oppression. “Man is born free but… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. — Ira Berlin Copy Share Image
Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“ And after he had succumbed the slavery and disclosed his opinion,He….." I'd like to give you the chance to complete the… — Mohamed Ayman Hussein Copy Share Image
“Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Don't sell your soul for a lifetime of slavery to avoid a brief time of misery. This, too, shall pass.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I love my country and what it stands for. Freedom. Law of the jungle. I hate the people who run my country… — Chris Barnhill Copy Share Image
“I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
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![“These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47c/anonymous-1_army_these-semi-traitors-union-generals-who-w_1826184.jpg)
![“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.’ This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e0/carl-sagan-160_critical-thinking_to-make-a-contented-slave-frederick-bail_1690816.jpg)
