I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery. You think slavery didn't exist in Africa? Even Indian tribes. — David Duke Copy Share Image
“[T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“He tried to make his lust comical, to show how absurd it all was, easily the most wretched form of human struggle,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting… — Susie Larson Copy Share Image
I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago,… — Beth Macy Copy Share Image
“Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor -- it is not so easy to get a human being to commit… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“Well," said Miss Ophelia, "do you think slavery right or wrong?" "I'm not going to have any of your horrid New England… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men,… — Zeno of Citium Copy Share Image
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Doesn't their superiority consist in there being fewer traces of the slaveowner in them than in us?' Nikolai” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of thepeople who compose the nation; and that can be done only by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We must work together, across nations and sectors. Only then will we consign the hideous crime of slavery to the history books. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. — John Fund Copy Share Image
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