“The world dominance of Great Britain enabled it to impose its anti-slavery edicts on many other sovereign nations.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1980, though its own government admitted that the practice continued nevertheless.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“We preach FREEDOM, not silenced slavery. Stop being a hypocritical element. Do to others what you can accept yourself.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
“You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom -… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“No,” he answered. If Stanton figured he was teaching the slave a lesson, Venture knew that by staying locked up he was… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“By 1860, two of every three of the relatively few Americans whose wealth surpassed $100,000 lived below the Mason-Dixon Line. New York… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
“Of course, the political history of the United States is exactly the reverse. It is in large measure the history of a… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom… — Siddharth Kara Copy Share Image
In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The bonds of dependence, far from loosening, have tightened again. But alongside force there is no longer authority, alongside obedience, no longer… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading,… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“Most of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were purchased, rather than captured, by Europeans.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul. — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good. — Shannon Elizabeth Copy Share Image
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Until we really heal the wounds that we dealt with during slavery, I don't think we'll be a fully realized country. — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
