“I couldn’t let her come back whole and that, I think, really symbolizes her not coming back whole. Antebellum slavery didn’t leave… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I'm a worker, but I think that all workers get an idea of what to do to get free. Any kind of… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term;… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
“Slavery is as much about the psychological control of the master over the slave as of the physical domination, cruelty and exploitation… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law.… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more… — CrimethInc Copy Share Image
I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do… — Richard Rumbold Copy Share Image
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It is a mistaken opinion that prevails in some quarters that the slave does not understand the term - does not comprehend… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“In historical terms women, black people in general, were very attracted to very bright-colored clothing. Most people are frightened by color anyway...They… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“My narrative is at an end. I have no comments to make upon the subject of Slavery. Those who read this book… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“When we came out of the cookhouse, we found the boy's father, the Indian man who had been grazing the horses in… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
“As he plods behind Cameron and Summer, he can’t help but stare at Summer’s exposed, glistening skin. His thoughts aren’t depraved or… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Despite the new impediments that DeWolf faced, he became more powerful than ever. On December 4, 1795, his ship the Juno sold… — Cynthia Mestad Johnson Copy Share Image
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master. — John Norman Copy Share Image
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
“Greed will build a religion out of crypto currency and then man will have a true god whom they can worship.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery,… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the Caribbean had their breastfeeding time limited so that they could breed more slaves for their owners.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Illegal immigrants are sold into slavery. It's a massive issue with Hispanic women and children - and even men. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery. — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
![“I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/607/george-saunders-317_abraham_i-ve-been-reading-about-and-writing-abou_3049163.jpg)
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