“The logic of evangelical Protestants in the 18th century led to an inescapable conclusion: If God was indeed no respecter of persons,… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish.… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“We know many among ourselves who have given themselves up to bonds, in order that they might ransom others. Many, too, have… — Clement of Rome Copy Share Image
In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“There are no gods, paladin. There is no afterlife, no eternal reward. You, in fact, are a slave to a creature you… — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
“In his home, no one around him saw anything wrong with the tyranny. Slavery was as customary as prisons are today. Few… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“In our humble12 opinion, the South in general’s attitude regarding the war and everything that came after needs a major paradigm shift.… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
“Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
It's just like a liberal, they import slaves, they hold slaves, they fight for slavery, they go to war in a civil… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Even after the war, Eugenia, do you still put people into categories the way you were taught to do—rich and poor, socially… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
“January 25, 1785, nineteen people gathered at the home of innkeeper John Simmons to form a society that would safeguard blacks who… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of… — James McBride Copy Share Image
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises:… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into… — Sunitha Krishnan Copy Share Image
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image