A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and… — David Bradley Copy Share Image
Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
My brother has two children now, so I've been playing aunt Renee. They're two and four. It's chaos. Moms out there, kudos… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
The American Dream has really good PR. It's kind of difficult to live in the United States and not on some level… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form.… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of… — Annette Gordon-Reed Copy Share Image
There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Oh! How heavily the weight of slavery pressed upon me then. I must toil day after day, endure abuse and taunts and… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“The existence of Slavery in its most cruel form among them, has a tendency to brutalize the humane and finer feelings of… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something. — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth,… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain. — David Batstone Copy Share Image
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the… — William Loughton Smith Copy Share Image
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another:… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
