“From their arrival around 1619, African people had illegally resisted legal slavery. They had thus been stamped from the beginning as criminals. In” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left—no, nor despair— To break his teeth… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it comes to slavery, it's an… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor;… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
As an African American woman and the descendant of slaves, I do not condone any form of racism or oppression. I most… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“The influences and associations that had always surrounded him, blinded him to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“What could be better for slave owners than slaves who think they’re free? This is the greatest trick ever pulled: a nation… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Are you so simple as to assume that the Big Surrender banished the concept of human slavery from the earth? What is… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
And verily for everything a slave loses there is a substitue,but the one who loses Allah wil never find anything to replace… — Islam Copy Share Image
“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It is so, my dear Lucilius; there are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold… — Seneca Copy Share Image
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery… — James Otis Copy Share Image
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
