No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous… — William Tecumseh Vernon Copy Share Image
There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church,… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“Although the First Testament talks about slavery, Middle Eastern slavery was not an inherently oppressive institution like the European slavery accepted under… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There is this pressure for us to only tell stories about slavery and the civil rights era, but there are many of… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure… — Robert J. Rayback Copy Share Image
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's a really great documentary called 'Many Rivers,' which documents the totality of slavery from its inception, and then it gives you… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“When the infernal machine of plantation slavery began to grind its wheels, iron laws of economics came into play, laws that would… — Derek Bickerton Copy Share Image
“Alliances with other nations lead to bondage," Zechariah explained. "Joseph started out as Pharaoh's trusted advisor in Egypt, but later generations ended… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
Even when I became cognizant of this societal problem in this country, I asked my father and my mother if they knew… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“If you are not strong enough to fight you have no choice but to accept the life of a slave. The hunter… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery?… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough),… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“Here’s an assignment for my fellow Christians: Go to YouTube, search for any video of ‘slaughterhouse animal cruelty’, watch it, the whole… — Shenita Etwaroo Copy Share Image
This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
![“More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.” quote by Mira Sorvino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e8/mira-sorvino-11683_drug_more-is-spent-in-a-single-month-in-the-u_1784303.png)
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