Debt is a form of slavery not prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment; but it is a form of voluntary servitude that is… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Capitalism in and of itself is based on the monetising of human labour, and the first evidence of that is slavery. And… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. — Democritus Copy Share Image
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves.… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life,… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary,… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Even when the 13th Amendment was passed to abolish slavery with an exception of servitude as a penalty for criminal conviction, the… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism,… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of… — Lucy N. Colman Copy Share Image
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all… — Albert G. Brown Copy Share Image
“She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“May we all stand tall together in the face of those forces, here and elsewhere, that seek to enslave us.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
