A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. — Plato Copy Share Image
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“And, since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race, how did it come about that… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
“A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much… — Don E. Fehrenbacher Copy Share Image
“Untouchability shuts all doors of opportunities for betterment in life for Untouchables. It does not offer an Untouchable any opportunity to move… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Slavery is the nagging, unrelenting shame of America that continues to deny the true promise of the country to too many its… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“When people think of slavery, they think of whips, chains and neurological implants. While these things may be necessary, the real tools… — Kalin Ringkvist Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“But then, if it’s the case that we can care about citizens and the police, shouldn’t the rallying cry just be All… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“How is it possible that we should need money to live on a planet that we were born on? Like many others… — Michael Tellinger Copy Share Image
You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“It is in my mind that a people faced with death or slavery as their only choices are not readily going to… — Manda Scott Copy Share Image
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.” — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“A slave was supposed to be like the Holy Ghost—don’t see it, don’t hear it, but it’s always hovering round on ready.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
![“My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load." And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by…” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/887/maya-angelou-104_18th-century_my-people-couldn-t-have-survived-slavery_2520308.png)
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