Break Quote by Leon Trotsky

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

— Susan B. Anthony

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of…

— Walter Rodney

“Whoever visits some estates there, and witnesses the good-humored indulgence of some masters and mistresses, and the affectionate loyalty of some slaves, might be…

— Solomon Northup

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses;…

— Susan Sontag

“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the…

— Frederick Douglass

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized)…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Slavery is as much about the psychological control of the master over the slave as of the physical domination, cruelty and exploitation which we…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

— John Adams

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche