The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“had missions she was charged to perform—but she had taken them on as personal challenges, not out of some loyalty to a… — John Jackson Miller Copy Share Image
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo… — George Grey Copy Share Image
“That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own… — John Pearce Copy Share Image
“Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: ‘If the price we pay for freedom is high,… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“Many of the Founding Fathers themselves foresaw that their compromise with southern states was a poison pill that would eventually lead to… — Tom Reiss 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
“She saw a soldier strike a boy ahead of her with his baton. Behind him, a girl turned and spat in the… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Why didn't Lina know their names? Why hadn't she studied their histories? Where was the monument? Where was the museum? What had… — Tara Conklin 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
Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift… — Meat Loaf 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
I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose… — Virginia Williams Copy Share Image
“There are more slaves in the world today (best estimate—27 million) than were extracted from Africa during 400 years of the transatlantic… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the… — Chinua Achebe 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
Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“JONES WATCHED THE HOUSE being built, the Negro slaves’ wiry bodies slick with sweat as they toiled in the intense summer heat.… — Michael Bray Copy Share Image
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Maria thought for a moment. “Are they slaves?” He shook his head but did not answer immediately. “They’re robots.” “Are they? I… — N.M. Sotzek Copy Share Image
“Slaves are not allowed to say no. Laborers may be hesitant to say no. But professionals are expected to say no. Indeed,… — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
“Hal: "...Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us." "I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's easy to let ourselves off the hook and say, 'Oh, I would never own slaves.' Because this is in the DNA… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead. They're dead, they're dead, they're dead. The South's not risin' again. The slaves have been… — Bobcat Goldthwait 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
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