You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust… — Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision: "Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are… — Peter cox Copy Share Image
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine,… — Mary Griffith Copy Share Image
I suspect, too, that the modern debates represent the effort of candidates with widely-varying constituencies and special interests to please to tip… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Summer turns and marches away, fed up with being handled like a child. Like she’s a glass doll that might break at… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed,… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent's expectations. We are slaves… — Mahima Martel Copy Share Image
Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after… — Gus Hall Copy Share Image
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To me, as I see it, reparations would be something that is fairly specific to the descendants of slaves, and it would… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is.… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
“I had rather starve to death here, being a free man, than to have plenty in slavery. I cannot be a slave… — Benjamin Drew Copy Share Image
America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery,… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special… — John Bright Copy Share Image
The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
You can't take our people from Africa and put us in a diaspora and spread us all over the world. And we… — Eric D. Thomas Copy Share Image
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“it means what it say," Ethel said. "It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of Ham… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
![“[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.” quote by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/nicholas-d-kristof-and-sheryl_equality_s-ex-trafficking-and-mass-rape-should-no_2340789.jpg)
![“Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision: "Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it. These slogans have a long history…” quote by Peter cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b64/peter-cox-269262_animal-rights_writer-brigid-brophy-exposes-their-motiv_2401321.jpg)
![“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00c/thomas-jefferson-43_change_single-acts-of-tyranny-may-be-ascribed-t_5515.jpg)
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