From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over.… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of… — Annette Gordon-Reed Copy Share Image
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness.… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I think many Dutch just don't know the history of Black Pete, that he is rooted in slavery, and how he was… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery.… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against… — John Brown Baldwin Copy Share Image
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Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used… — Femi Kuti Copy Share Image
We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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