One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“We had a little slave boy whom we had hired from some one, there in Hannibal. He was from the Eastern Shore… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union… — Régis de Trobriand Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I still worry about Africa, we are slaves to western and Eastern Brands and we do not cherish and love our own.… — Tare Munzara Copy Share Image
Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa],… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange -… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“Forced partings were common in the antebellum South. A slave in some parts of the region stood a 30 percent chance of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“I hope you're not proposing to enslave us,' said Twoflower. Marchesa looked genuinely shocked. 'Certainly not! Whatever could have given you that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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