“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.” HumansLightAgeJusticeDarkHuman BeingsLibertyMoralChristianityGreaterSocietyCivilizationEqualTestsUniversalSlaveGoddessToysSavagesSentimentalDark Ages Author:George William Curtis
“When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.” MenHumansEndsJusticeFeetEternalSlaveChainsNecksContemptTyrantsCitizenshipFree Man Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
“The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!” WritingCountryDoneAgeTogetherNamesSidesChurchJusticeAtheismDivineSlavePositive AtheismTyrannyCrueltyWelcomeEnginesIndifferentInfidelityPreferenceOppressorsInfidelPaine Author:Frederick Douglass
“No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.” MenWorldShouldLooksMatterJusticeForgetAtheismClaimsFellowsSlavePositive AtheismTitlesCaptureFellow ManPits Author:Zeno of Citium
“To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.” WholePastLawJusticePrinciplesEffectsEqualLaborSlaveRememberedBordersLakesRepublicEverlastingGeorgiaPacificCarolinaUnrequitedBarbarismSlopesMaineMassachusettsRelicsFugitiveMaturedVillainy Author:Horace Mann
“Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!” PeopleStillsHomeLightHouseBlackHoursJusticeWhiteSlaveMarchBlack And WhiteFleetingGladnessPuerto RicoRico Author:Jose Marti
“The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire.” MenHas BeensHandsGovernmentFormDesireJusticeQualityProduceCitizensBraveryInstitutionsSlaveDistinguishedFoulCowardlyForms Of GovernmentGood Quality Author:Dionysius of Halicarnassus
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!” ChildrenLittlesStatesCharacterDreamTodayAbleTogetherNationsJusticeFourColorSonOne DayRedSkinsTablesSlaveInjusticeOppressionFormerHillsHeatOwnersBrotherhoodJudgedTransformedGeorgiaMississippiOasisSlave OwnersInjustice And Oppression Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Throughout the ages advanced souls have yearned for a society in which liberty and justice prevail. Men have sought for it, fought for it, have died for it. Ancient freemen prized it; slaves longed for it; the Magna Charta demanded it; the Constitution of the United States declared it.” MenSoulStatesAgeJusticeUnitedLibertyUnited StatesConstitutionDiedSlaveAncientConstitution Of The United StatesFreemanLiberty And Justice Author:David O. McKay