Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our… — Megan Smolenyak Copy Share Image
Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The price of freedom is high — far higher than that of slavery. And it is not paid in gold, nor in… — Curzio Malaparte Copy Share Image
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When I speak of God, I mean that god who prevented man from putting forth his hand and taking also of the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud,… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It is troubling that modern slavery is a crime that can be hidden in the supply chains of the goods and services… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being… — Nathan Huggins Copy Share Image
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
“few years after Ball was herded south, a slave trader marched a coffle past the US Capitol just as a gaggle of… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the slave system grew, the South's leaders felt they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I felt entangled now: this March, this South, this war, history. History could not possibly let the South get away with slavery;… — Cynthia Bass Copy Share Image
“the American physician Samuel Cartwright identifying in 1851 a mental disorder, drapetomania, evident only in slaves. The sole symptom was “the desire… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever… — Malik Zulu Shabazz Copy Share Image
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My family is from Jamaica, it's why I don't do 'Who Do You Think You Are' because within two or three generations… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
