“Any property taken away from others, whether by stealth, fraud or violence, must be wrong: but to take away men themselves, and… — Ottobah Cugoano known as John Stuart Copy Share Image
Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
“Freedom's never been free, there's always been a price to be paid, but people have forgotten; they're handing their freedom, their lives,… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
“History, I always think, is our reality check. And understanding it in places like Liverpool's International Slavery Museum is an essential part… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
“By Jamaican standards, this level of slave-ownership on the part of a skilled craftsman was not unusual. The 157 inhabitants of Port… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the other person all attributes of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Too much freedom seems to change into nothing but too much slavery, both for private man and city.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“We’re not descendants of slaves. We’re descendants of free people who were enslaved.' Francia Márquez Mina, Afro-Colombian Vice President of Colombia” — Francia Márquez Mina Copy Share Image
“In Rome, too, slaves were the sunshine of every day and the nightmare of every night. Slavery stoked the empire’s life and… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. — David Wilmot Copy Share Image
For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If one truly believes in freedom, how can one welcome the notion of slavery from either traditional masters or temperance-wielding masters disguised… — Joshua Emmet Copy Share Image
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery. — Dan Geer Copy Share Image
I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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