“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
“American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“When people think of slavery, they think of whips, chains and neurological implants. While these things may be necessary, the real tools… — Kalin Ringkvist Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“Negro slavery, thus, had nothing to do with climate. Its origin can be expressed in three words: in the Caribbean, Sugar; on… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
“On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
“The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always!… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.” “No it isn’t,” I said. “That book wasn’t even written until… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The present struggle between the South and North is, therefore, nothing but a struggle between two social systems, the system of slavery… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I recognize the inequities certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history of slavery. I know all those things. But… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I hope that young people especially will begin to have a better understanding of slavery and its effects, which are still evident… — Emayatzy E. Corinealdi Copy Share Image
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
