In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery;… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
“We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“When she emerged a while later, as fresh as she could get using only the washbasin and her hands, she understood one… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“The more I study the works of men in their institutions, the more clearly I see that, in their efforts after independence,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“their base ingratitude to my poor old grandmother. She had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age. She had… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Esau sold his birth right, because he wanted a plate of meal. Today, When I look in the news, social media and… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“There are women," returned my uncle, "some of them of the most admired, who are slaves to a demoniacal love of power.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I often compared myself with a slave. Slaves were taken forcibly from Africa, and so was I. Slaves were sold a couple… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
“She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“PROGENY OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE The leaky little tubs which the sea devours are the granddaughters of those slave ships. Today’s slaves,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“French Enlightenment philosophers liked to use slavery as a symbol of human oppression, and particularly political oppression. “Man is born free but… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The whole South was a military camp. The occupation of the colored people was to furnish supplies for the army. Conscription was… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“There's a series of sculptures there by Michelangelo that you should see. They are called The Captives. Out of a great formless… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, however, when chided by their slaves or others, slaveholders did act in concert with the better selves of their paternalist rhetoric.… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“While I was fighting, I heard other people speaking in the name of freedom, and the more they defended this unique right,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Every mystic had always longed for slaves, to protect him from the material reality he dreaded. But you, you grotesque little atavists,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are… — George Washington Copy Share Image
To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
![“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.’ This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e0/carl-sagan-160_critical-thinking_to-make-a-contented-slave-frederick-bail_1690816.jpg)
![“My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load." And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by…” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/887/maya-angelou-104_18th-century_my-people-couldn-t-have-survived-slavery_2520308.png)
