We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
I can't think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to… — Candace Owens Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We… — Majid Kazmi Copy Share Image
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Then one day along come a Friday and that a unlucky star day and I playin' round de house and marster Williams… — James Green Copy Share Image
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is… — John Brown Baldwin Copy Share Image
