“The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.” — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always!… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.” “No it isn’t,” I said. “That book wasn’t even written until… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance, and corresponds to those things… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“It was not that “slave trade profits” flowed through some fiendish channels into the dark satanic mills. But the burgeoning Atlantic trade… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice Copy Share Image
“The 1860s ushered in a number of changes that profoundly transformed the nation. While the emancipation of enslaved people and the increased… — Jim Downs Copy Share Image
The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“It is easier for people to accept slavery if they realize that they actually have paid for it. - On Slavery.” — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
We need a Slavery Remembrance Day... we also need to accord dignity and respect to the enslaved people... with a Congressional gold… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery. — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither… — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
