Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words… — M.K. Asante Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We still have slavery of all kinds - slavery of thought, slavery of ideas, slavery of cultureand I think 'Roots' exemplifies, in… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family… — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Off course, life has no point. If it had, man would not be free. He'd become a slave to that point and… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“The mind has its needs, just as the body does. The latter are the foundations of society; from the former emerge the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“It's owed to us through immunities of our individualities but we're deceived and become surety. Sure to be if we grow in… — Jose R. Coronado Copy Share Image
“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Two hundred years ago when slavery was going on it was illegal to educate a slave, particularly to teach them to read.… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with… — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of… — Laura Antoniou Copy Share Image
“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin,… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“A simple proof that they are a kind of robot: if the era and civilization they live in worshipped "ugliness," they too… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
