For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
“the elite of our people” had, in his quiet way, escaped slavery. In 1841 Joseph Willson, dentist, of Philadelphia, published Sketches of… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days… — Maria Firmina dos Reis Copy Share Image
“The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation… — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“As the international economist Ronald Findlay argues, “slavery was an integral part of a complex intercontinental system of trade in goods and… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I wanted to touch on how we look on each other. Good hair, light skin, you must be smart; if you're black,… — Rapsody Copy Share Image
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave… — Robert Purvis Copy Share Image
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,—and to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren,… — Samuel Sewall Copy Share Image
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in… — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
![“So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren, then they were to him: and they no more Authority to Sell him, than they had to Slay him. [Genesis 37].” quote by Samuel Sewall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/samuel-sewall-95664_bible-interpretation_so-that-originally-and-naturally-there-i_2619011.jpg)
