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For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule… — Mary Livermore
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am… — Luis Walter Alvarez
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable… — Alexander Hamilton
If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when… — Mahatma Gandhi
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. — Nelson Mandela
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal… — Simone de Beauvoir
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its… — William Wells Brown
In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented… — Henry Highland Garnet
Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies… — John Oliver Killens
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be. — Sukarno
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and… — David Walker
I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be… — Leyla Zana
When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is… — Gerry Spence
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More… — Greg Mortenson
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. — Miguel de Cervantes
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,… — Olive Schreiner
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery. — Seneca the Younger
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself… — Henry David Thoreau
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future… — Oscar Wilde
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th… — Aberjhani
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and… — Abraham Lincoln

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