There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing… — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
“That is indeed the best way to dumb down the masses: make them do the same thing over and over; let them… — Maude Julien Copy Share Image
“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol,… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to… — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
“Almost two hundred years ago, Harriet Tubman led slaves to freedom. And when they told her they didn’t think they could, when… — Anna Carey Copy Share Image
“White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him?… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
“To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Those Walmarts weren't buildings, they were bunkers. Those weren't parking lots out front, they were kill zones.” — Gard Skinner Copy Share Image
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
Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Some things are not worth dying for, but without them life is not worth living.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
“The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
