“Emancipation Proclamation, which gave federal legal status to slaves, was in fact an executive order. And,” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
“It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in… — Plato Copy Share Image
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The work of redemption was accomplished by Christ in His death on the cross and has in view the payment of the… — John F Walvoord Copy Share Image
“Why Banning Miller, what a vision you are in your fine dress. Must've taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
“Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna… — Nancy Rawles Copy Share Image
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine… — Thomas Roberts Copy Share Image
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“To have a museum chronicling the great crime that was African slavery in the United States of America would be to acknowledge… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Slavery is not a horror safely confined to the past; it continues to exist throughout the world, even in developed countries like… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
“Unlike a snake or a bear, a dead nigger could not be skinned for profit and was not worth his own dead… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
“THE FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF OF THE RULING ELITE IS THAT THEY were born to rule, while the vast majority of the populace is… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
![“Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive their free[dom] . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably…” quote by George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae7/george-washington-257_bounds_upon-the-decease-of-my-wife-it-is-my-wil_3182279.jpg)
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