It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves,… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave,… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
“What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society… — Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Copy Share Image
Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery… That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
“Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively,… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“Who but a slave thanks his master for what his master has decided to do without bothering to consult him.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery. — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
“By the early eighteenth century, every Virginia county had a militia of landless Whites “ready in case of any sudden eruption of… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Sometimes our Boss no right to down their servants,the problem is the servants can't do to fight for themselves.. — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights. — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism.… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington Copy Share Image
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