“What is the true story of Fantine? It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Slavery is as old as civilization, and has been practiced all over the world. It was ubiquitous in antiquity, and is taken… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not;… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“These three creation stories were shaped in the patriarchal, slave-holding world of early urban civilization in the eastern Mediterranean of the second… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Nobody's about saving anymore. No one cares about a rainy day anymore. Nobody saves up enough for even an umbrella for a… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence!—fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet panting for deliverance from their awful thraldom!—fortunate for the cause… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
The first reason for mans inner slavery is his ignorance, and above all, his ignorance of himself. Without self-knowledge, without understanding the… — George Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people...… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which… — John J. Crittenden Copy Share Image
I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
In truth there is only one freedom - the holy freedom of Christ, whereby He freed us from sin, from evil, from… — Justin Popovic Copy Share Image
The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
American chattel slavery was practically defined by the fundamental instability of Black families. The institution rested on the expropriation of the reproductive… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“But the language of slavery does more than merely picture the gospel. In fact, it is central to the message of salvation.… — John F. MacArthur Jr Copy Share Image
By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based,… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
“My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
There's something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“To the RKO motion picture camera at her 100th birthday party: “I pray for the day when working men and women are… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Here, then, is the origin of Negro slavery. The reason was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of… — George Grey Copy Share Image
