Politics Quote by Samuel Johnson

“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult…

— Booker T. Washington

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Perhaps slavery is harder for a person who has known freedom. Perhaps it does not matter. The”

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“The growing spirit of kindliness and reconciliation between the North and South after the frightful differences of a generation ago ought to be a…

— W.E.B. DuBois

“George Washington had turned down the requests of blacks, seeking freedom, to fight in the Revolutionary army. So when the British military commander in…

— Howard Zinn

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

— Samuel Johnson

“American Slavery, American Freedom,”

— Andrew Levy

“Isn't it funny how freedom is only another word for slavery?”

— Lionel Suggs

“The magnitude of violence and insidious institutional murder and slavery is not something any human can comprehend and some people are brave enough to…

— Christy Leigh Stewart

“I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom, than have peaceful slavery”

— Anonymous

“Before democracy, chattel slavery in America was born”

— Michelle Alexander

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof