If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“By 1860, two of every three of the relatively few Americans whose wealth surpassed $100,000 lived below the Mason-Dixon Line. New York… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
“No,” he answered. If Stanton figured he was teaching the slave a lesson, Venture knew that by staying locked up he was… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words… — M. K. Asante Copy Share Image
“Miranda was shocked to hear Nicholas speak of slavery in glowing terms, as an efficient agricultural system. This wasn't the South! Yet… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
How many demons and people are enslaved here? (Jericho) Define slavery. (Asmodeus) Kept against their will. (Jericho) Good definition. Counting me? (Asmodeus)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“I watched these young people read to the audience parts of history that placed our country in context. I felt, in that… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
There are some things for which there is no apology, and on the question of slavery, there is no adequate apology for… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in… — Albert Parsons Copy Share Image
Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Companies with historical connections to slavery must take ethical responsibility by funding housing programs and grant programs that uplift underserved communities. This… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral &… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
