“Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control you” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority… — Glen Chambers Copy Share Image
The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I never will, I never can, worship a God who upholds the institution of slavery. Such a God I hate and defy.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Rendering moral judgements in retrospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. Yet… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery.… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
In China, the rich enslaved the poor, and in England and Scotland and all over the world, one person, through his power… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
“It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“chain kept moving, and Ball led the file down through Virginia into North Carolina at a steady pace. As the days wore… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended… — Benjamin Zephaniah Copy Share Image
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast… — John Adams Copy Share Image
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Banning the institution of slavery itself long remained only a distant hope in much of Africa and the Middle East, even after… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty. — John Baldwin Buckstone Copy Share Image
“The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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