“You ever think about the noose?' 'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.” — Stacey Lee Copy Share Image
Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion. — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. — John Denham Copy Share Image
“Being a slave is to have nothing but still having something left to lose.” — Lalita Tedemy Copy Share Image
The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of… — George Grey Copy Share Image
“It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
“I am well aware that one can't get along without domineering or being served. Every man needs slaves as he needs fresh… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices… — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
“(it is striking that when slavery was abolished, the British government paid compensation, not to the men and women so inhumanely pressed… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Up to now, I have never served nor become a messenger for any foreign power or interest. I am an enemy to… — Woldeab Woldemariam Copy Share Image
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.'… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Well, I think that what used to be called, centuries ago, "wage slavery" is intolerable. And I don't think people ought to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
