While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.
Douglas Brinkley
RacismSpiritualSlaverySurrender
The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.
Lajos Kossuth
FreedomEffortSlaveryIndependence
Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.
Colson Whitehead
SlaveryYouLyingSystemViolent
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
Kailash Satyarthi
ChildSlaveryYouResponsibleBuying
I am a firm believer in slavery.
Brigham Young
I AmSlaveryFirmBelieverAm
Death is better than slavery.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
DeathSlaveryBetterThan
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice Walker
MoneyWomanManPeopleSlaveryYou
I can't think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to talk to me about slavery.
Candace Owens
PeopleMeSlaveryBlackThinkWant
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
William Labov
SlaveryAmericanCreationInheritance
I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
Abraham Lincoln
PeopleSlaveryFreeBelieveBack
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
DemocracySlaveryTyrannyLiberty
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
MindSlaveryRestForwardPushNew
A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it.
Sharan Burrow
SlaveryDiligenceChainsCleanHuman
The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
Ed Rollins
HateSlaveryPartyBecomeRepublican
Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms - often putting their lives on the line - called themselves liberals.
Rick Perlstein
WomenTimePeopleSlaveryEnding
I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.
Marion Barry
FunnyLawSlaveryStoryRepublican
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
Lysander Spooner
PositiveLawSlaveryLegalNatural
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.
Leonard Bacon
GovernmentSlaveryWrongNothing
If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.
Kevin Bales
HistorySlaveryYouLookPerson
My grandmother and my upbringing filled me with the spirit of the church and the spirit of the faith brought by Africans to the new land during slavery.
Jewell Parker Rhodes
FaithMeSlaveryChurchNewLand
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
Julian Bond
SlaveryLegalPermanentUnemployment
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.
Jeremy Corbyn
TimeWarSlaveryBackStopShame
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
Huey Newton
MomentPeopleSlaverySlavesSubject
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
Andrew Young
SlaveryBlackRulesUpBreakMuch
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