Abolitionist Quote by Gamaliel Bailey

There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.

— Robert Toombs

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

— Dillon Burroughs

Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I want you…

— Groucho Marx

I'm a worker, but I think that all workers get an idea of what to do to get free. Any kind of bondage, even…

— Sixto Rodriguez

“But while the people advocating reparations have changed over time, the response from the country has remained virtually the same. “They have been taught…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end…

— Adam Smith

It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge…

— Leo Durocher

“Prison presented a solution: jobs for whites, and warehousing for blacks. Mass incarceration “widened the income gap between white and black Americans,”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“The desire to get money through jobs enslaves us”

— Sunday Adelaja

Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary…

— Bill Dedman