My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks.… — Thomas R. Martin Copy Share Image
“In fact, all known societies above the very primitive level have been slave societies—even many of the Northwest American Indian tribes had… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Now we have to understand that slavery would not have ended if it was left to the Africans alone, Now, Europe understood… — Femi Kuti Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to… — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
“He slid his hands to the back of her neck, fumbling for the necklace’s clasp. He undid it and held the chain… — Susanna Fraser Copy Share Image
“It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the… — Julian Beck Copy Share Image
“It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if “having been freed from… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been broken by the personal relation; and when a white… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after… — Tom Metzger Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism,… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
With a combination of warped Christianity and White supremacy, enslavers created an absolutely bizarre notion of patrimony and fatherhood that was both… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
My grandma always said, "Where there's a will, there's a way." I think it's just naturally in our DNA to be able… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
