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“I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.”

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Book:Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

“I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.”

Way May Long Stills Existence Cases Modern Racism Slavery Discrimination Inequality Our Society Long Way

Author:Al Sharpton

“The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.”

Men World Made Eye Today Religion Interest Walks Slavery Made It World Today Open Eyes

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, - the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.”

“A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.”

Slavery Complexes Heritage Continuing Commentary Actuality American Slavery

Author:Sherley Anne Williams

“A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.”

Children Stills Ends Labor Slavery Remains Lifetime Child Labor Slave Labor Child Labour Slave Labour

Author:Kailash Satyarthi

“The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.”

Today Challenges Slavery African American Rooted

Author:Charles Rangel

“My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?”

Long Stills Two War Voice Slavery Debate Senate

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703

“If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.”

Ifs Made Government Blame Slavery Lays Vices Heavy Rulers Distress

Author:Solon

“Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.”

Men Kind States Government Cases Progress Institutions Slavery Vigorous Feudalism

Author:Herbert Spencer

“This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.”

People Business Opinion Saws Growing Slavery Relieved

Book:End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier

Source: End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier

“I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.”

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Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.”

Men May Reason Form Numbers Pay Poverty Depends Creatures Advantage Claims Independence Slavery Complexes Dependency Kinship Debtors

Author:Andre Gide

“One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.”

Action Fighting Slavery Reactions Last Words Action And Reaction

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.”

Would Be Sides Dark Masters Slavery Slave Idle Dark Side Volcanoes

Author:Mary Virginia Terhune

“The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.”

People Choices Freedom Slavery

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures.”

Men Giving Law Freedom Struggle Willing Creatures Giving Up Fellows Slavery Property Slave Your Freedom

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.”

Men Social Economic Source Civilization Prove Equal Fundamentals Slavery Property Factors Tyrants Despotism Private Property Inconsistent

Author:Daniel De Leon

“True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.”

Men Should Form Evil He Man Slavery Equality Crush Herds Single Man

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us.”

Way Want Looks Long Ideas Body Existence Goes On And Love Slavery Slave Dear Chains Hug Bondage Human Body

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?”

Way Gold Slavery Chains Iron Bondage

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.”

Knows Giving Kind Ideas Earth Heaven Giving Up Slavery Bondage

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.”

Thinking Humanity Born Animal Growing Regard Slavery Equality Tendencies Animal Rights Disgusting

Author:Victor Gollancz

“So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.”

War Slavery Engaging

Author:Robert E. Lee

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”

Literature Speak Freedom Slavery Censorship Freedom Of Speech Be A Slave

Book:Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes

Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes

“The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.”

Facts Fall Liberty Principles Issues Conflict Approach Slavery

Book:John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

Source: John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

“As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.”

“Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.”

Prayer Slavery Chains Tone Testimony Deliverance

Author:Frederick Douglass

“The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.”

Hands Lying Choices Issues Thirds Slavery Property

Book:An Essay on the Restoration of Property

Source: An Essay on the Restoration of Property

“I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.”

Years Believe States America I Believe Years Ago Slavery Injustice Painful Symbols Flags Reminders Abraham Confederate

Author:Howard Dean

“To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.”

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Author:Pope Leo XIII

“Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.”

Ends Action Together Love Is Compassion Solutions Forgiveness And Love Slavery Together We Can Patience And Love

Author:Somaly Mam

“Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.”

Men Has Beens Simple Party Rights Movement Republican Slavery Forgotten Creeds Republican Party Violation Abolitionist

Author:Elbert Guillory

“You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.”

People Thinking Years Believe Looks Ideas Past Years Ago Slavery Mindset Good Ideas Back In Time

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.”

Book Whole Stories Comfort Slavery Medical Experiments Coming Out Units

Author:Iris Chang

“With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which has always done its work for those on earth, will roll away the stone from the tomb where is buried a race, and my people will come forth to their glory and the amazement of the world.”

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Author:William Tecumseh Vernon

“Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.”

World Happens Individual Security Agree Slavery Liberation Abandonment Outcast Chimera Banishment

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space”

Government Father Space Constitution Slavery Destroyed

Author:Andrew Johnson

“If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?”

Ifs Children Littles Mother Mouths Slavery Guilt Slave Hearing Guilty Inaction Robbing Abolitionist Guilty Conscience Not Guilty Suffragists

Author:Lucy Stone

“Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.”

Long Negative Slavery Slave Southern Sugar Louisiana Plantations

Author:Ned Sublette

“Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.”

Men Nations Liberty Too Much Slavery

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.”

Men Children Age Church Catholic Slavery Catholic Church Degrading

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.”

War Choices Evil Force Dark Cold Slavery Finals Soldier Burden Heavy Chains Good And Evil Prisoner Packs Cold War Lightness

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.”

People States Church United Liberty Christianity Enemy Mankind Civilization Slavery Oppression Exploits

Author:August Bebel

“To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.”

Persons Process Slavery Instant

Author:Timothy Keller

“The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel-the freedom from slavery to any material object or human expectation. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.”

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Author:Timothy Keller

“For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.”

“To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.”

Men Politics Slavery Voting

Author:Thomas Paine

“All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.”

War Slavery Officials Marxism Relentless

Book:Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh