Age Quote by Anonymous

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late…

— Benjamin F. Wade

“Before democracy, chattel slavery in America was born”

— Michelle Alexander

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

— Muhammad Iqbal

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I am a descendant of slaves. My great grandmother Mary Thomas, born in 1865, was the child of a slave. That is just three…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

— David Graeber

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to…

— John Henrik Clarke

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

— Adina Porter

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

“We were born to serve humanity, not to slave for society”

— Stephan Attia