Children Quote by Umberto Eco

“...he was telling me that our [country's] blood-soaked and atrocity-littered past was important but that the future didn't have to be its slave.”

— Wes Moore

“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should…

— Fredrika Bremer

“But I’ve come to realize that this continent is dying a slow death. Europe is receding quietly into history. It’s old and tired, and…

— Daniel Silva

“For example, at the fall of Rome there was very extensive slavery everywhere in Europe; by the time of the “Renaissance” it was long…

— Rodney Stark

“Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.”

— David Baldacci

“Time has now come which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors…

— Frederick Douglass

“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master…

— Jay Grewal

“Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class.”

— Virginia Woolf

“No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. But nobody wanted to speak on the…

— Colson Whitehead

“No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“but until we fix the government policies that breed poverty, we have condemned the poor, black, white, and brown to a life of economic…

— Stephen Coonts