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> [My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/basmah-bint-saud/my-father-established-the-first-women-s-university-in-the-kingdom/)

[Basmah bint Saud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/basmah-bint-saud/)

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> [“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-r-martin/in-this-way-the-spartans-erected-a-moral-barrier-between-themselves/)

Thomas R. Martin

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> [“In fact, all known societies above the very primitive level have been slave societies—even many of the Northwest American Indian tribes had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-stark/in-fact-all-known-societies-above-the-very-primitive-level-have-been/)

[Rodney Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-stark/)

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> [...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/secular-journalists-tend-to-accept-uncritically-the-oft-repeated/)

[John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelby-spong/)

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> [Now we have to understand that slavery would not have ended if it was left to the Africans alone, Now, Europe understood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/femi-kuti/now-we-have-to-understand-that-slavery-would-not-have-ended-if-it-was/)

[Femi Kuti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/femi-kuti/)

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> [I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/i-have-observed-this-in-my-experience-of-slavery-that-whenever-my-2/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kingston/marriage-is-an-institution-fits-in-perfect-harmony-with-the-laws-of/)

[Jack Kingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kingston/)

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> [“He slid his hands to the back of her neck, fumbling for the necklace’s clasp. He undid it and held the chain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-fraser/he-slid-his-hands-to-the-back-of-her-neck-fumbling-for-the-necklace-s/)

Susanna Fraser

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> [“It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/it-is-often-attempted-to-palliate-slavery-by-comparing-the-state-of/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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> [Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/unita-blackwell/movements-are-not-radical-movements-are-the-american-way-a-small/)

[Unita Blackwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/unita-blackwell/)

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> [The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-quincy-adams/the-inconsistency-of-the-institution-of-domestic-slavery-with-the/)

[John Quincy Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-quincy-adams/)

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> [We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-beck/we-are-a-feelingless-people-if-we-could-really-feel-the-pain-would-be-2/)

[Julian Beck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-beck/)

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> [“It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/it-would-take-either-a-full-scale-slave-rebellion-or-a-full-scale-war/)

[Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/)

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> [“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavia-e-butler/then-somehow-i-got-caught-up-in-one-of-kevin-s-world-war-ii-books-a/)

[Octavia E. Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavia-e-butler/)

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> [When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/when-i-enter-a-library-when-i-enter-the-world-of-books-i-feel-the/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

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> [The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/the-present-relationship-existing-between-husband-and-wife-where-one/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernie-sanders/the-history-of-american-democracy-to-say-the-least-has-been-checkered/)

[Bernie Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernie-sanders/)

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> [The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-henrik-clarke/the-acceptance-of-the-facts-of-african-american-history-and-the/)

[John Henrik Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-henrik-clarke/)

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> [It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/it-will-startle-you-to-see-what-slaves-we-are-to-by-gone-times-to/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danny-glover/what-s-more-important-is-that-we-talk-about-movements-change-happens/)

[Danny Glover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danny-glover/)

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> [I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosa-parks/i-was-born-50-years-after-slavery-in-1913-i-was-allowed-to-read-my/)

[Rosa Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosa-parks/)

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> [I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbie-hancock/i-don-t-think-there-are-any-pure-africans-of-the-african-americans/)

[Herbie Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbie-hancock/)

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> [“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-whole-commerce-between-master-and-slave-is-a-perpetual-exercise-2/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-e-knight/there-is-no-justification-for-the-common-claim-that-christianity-was/)

[Margaret E. Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-e-knight/)

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> [“Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if “having been freed from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-chernow/sensing-an-abandonment-of-reconstruction-frederick-douglass-wondered/)

[Ron Chernow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-chernow/)

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> [“Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleister-crowley/thus-each-step-in-sorcery-is-also-a-step-in-slavery-and-that-any-man/)

[Aleister Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleister-crowley/)

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> [“Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-e-b-du-bois-2/not-even-ten-additional-years-of-slavery-could-have-done-so-much-to/)

[W.E.B. Du Bois](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-e-b-du-bois-2/)

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> [Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/blood-is-a-cleansing-and-sanctifying-thing-and-the-nation-that/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shellenberger/it-was-only-with-the-rise-of-capitalism-and-the-need-for-workers-to/)

[Michael Shellenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shellenberger/)

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> [“I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-grewal/i-couldn-t-figure-out-if-it-was-fate-or-faith-that-had-brought-me/)

[Jay Grewal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-grewal/)

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> [As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-scott/as-slavery-died-for-the-greater-good-of-america-and-the-movement-for/)

[Jill Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-scott/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/what-had-happened-was-that-the-formal-pattern-of-black-and-white/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

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> [Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakunin/does-man-s-freedom-consist-in-revolting-against-all-laws-we-say-no-in/)

[Mikhail Bakunin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakunin/)

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> [Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/slavery-dishonors-labor-it-introduces-idleness-into-society-and-with/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-metzger/since-christianity-is-in-fact-a-slave-religion-it-is-satirical-at/)

[Tom Metzger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-metzger/)

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> [I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/i-always-wanted-to-do-a-movie-that-deals-with-america-s-horrific-past/)

[Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/)

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> [According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-mortenson/according-to-unesco-there-are-over-154-million-children-in-the-world/)

[Greg Mortenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-mortenson/)

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> [With a combination of warped Christianity and White supremacy, enslavers created an absolutely bizarre notion of patrimony and fatherhood that was both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-johnson/with-a-combination-of-warped-christianity-and-white-supremacy/)

[Jason Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-johnson/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kendrick-lamar/my-grandma-always-said-where-there-s-a-will-there-s-a-way-i-think-it/)

[Kendrick Lamar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kendrick-lamar/)

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> [I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-have-always-thought-that-all-men-should-be-free-but-if-any-should/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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                        "text": "“It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin; but how this bears on slavery, I cannot see; as well might the use of the thumb-screw be defended in one land, by showing that men in another land suffered from some dreadful disease. Those who look tenderly at the slave owner, and with a cold heart at the slave, never seem to put themselves into the position of the latter; what a cheerless prospect, with not even a hope of change! picture to yourself the chance, ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little children — those objects which nature urges even the slave to call his own — being torn from you and sold like beasts to the first bidder! And these deeds are done and palliated by men, who profess to love their neighbours as themselves, who believe in God, and pray that his Will be done on earth! It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty...”",
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