There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting. — Victor Gollancz Copy Share Image
“One could call a master a good master because he did not whip his slaves, but ultimately he was still and owner… — Nick Lake Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“One of the main differences between a slave and an employee is that the employee sold themselves.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I speak advisedly when I say this,—that killing a slave, or any colored person, in Talbot county, Maryland, is not treated as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group… — Michele Montas Copy Share Image
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“words ‘ebed and doulos has been undertaken with particular attention to their meaning in each specific context. Thus in Old Testament times,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for… — Horace Porter Copy Share Image
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
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