“It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for LIBERTY! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“She had been expected to learn the subtleties of court life, and while mastery of these arts would have never gained her… — Joseph Brassey Copy Share Image
“There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“In mechanical terms, humans are quite efficient converters of food into energy, so human slaves were often more valuable than animal slaves,… — David Christian Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November… — Questlove Copy Share Image
We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The anti-slavery parties were also called spoilers, including the Republican party that went on not just to abolish slavery but they actually… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
“I am well aware that one can't get along without domineering or being served. Every man needs slaves as he needs fresh… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices… — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
“(it is striking that when slavery was abolished, the British government paid compensation, not to the men and women so inhumanely pressed… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery.… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
My message is, is that although some of you didn't agree with the actions we took, now let's work together to rebuild… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
We, the Black people of America, were chosen by Allah: Not to be "special" in the sense that we are better than… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
How do you talk about the Holocaust? How do you talk about slavery? Probably the best thing to do is just be… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
"We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
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