As a white, female, half-Jewish writer, when I read 'The Underground Railroad,' it reminded me that America isn't just the sort of… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Enslaved to passing shadows. My dreams fade further away. I Begin to hear the faintest mumbles drone within my ear. These voices… — JMartinez Copy Share Image
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“We in this room have no private properties. Perhaps one or two of us may own the homes we live in, or… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of… — Amy Watkins Copy Share Image
“I wrote 300 books to escape the system, to buy my freedom, to escape slavery. Whoever thinks they need a job, is… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held'… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
In 1855, a former American slave remarked: "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“When the mother was delivered into the trader's hands, she said, "You promised to treat me well." To which he replied, "You… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic criminal activities. That's… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason. Then slavery came and… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country… — Idi Amin Copy Share Image
“In addition, the most reliable and recent studies of African tribal culture demonstrated that slavery was a long-standing custom among the Africans… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after… — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
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