“Robert Bunch, revealed that less than a quarter of the Southern population owned all 3.5 million slaves. Even if slavery were abolished… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
“Here we find the roots of American wealth and democracy—in the for-profit destruction of the most important asset available to any people,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“A man is always a little shamefaced on his wedding day, like a fox caught in a baited trap, ensnared because his… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“The first time he had taken the massa to one of these "high-falutin' to-dos," as Bell called them, Kunta had been all… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The story of slavery is everybody's story. It is the story about how we're all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of… — Lonnie Bunch Copy Share Image
“What made Bacon’s Rebellion especially fearsome for the rulers of Virginia was that black slaves and white servants joined forces. The final… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“All that a man has in this world is his own will, the freedom to do what he desires. Taking away that… — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
This is what I hold against slavery. May come a time when I forgive - cause I don't think I'm set up… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“questions which none seemed able to answer :How is it that white folks have everything and we have nothing? Slavery-how and why… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
“I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
When you look at the history of slavery in the United States, and you see the impact that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' had,… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington Copy Share Image
