Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering, first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah. — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world. — David Batstone Copy Share Image
“It's not an honour to be saddled wit a foreman's job, it's slavery.” — Akinbode Oluwaseun Micheal Copy Share Image
Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne? — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
“It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious,… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with… — Kwame Alexander Copy Share Image
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Slavery was a bad thing, and freedom, of the kind we got, with nothing to live on, was bad. Two snakes full… — Patsy Mitchner Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln did speak about keeping the man before the dollar, but he was talking at that moment about slavery, and referring… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
"First female president." That's it, and that's nowhere near, by the way, as powerful or penetrating as the first African-American president. I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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