Quotes 61 till 80 of 123.
-
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
-
Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-Hispanic. That's why Obama ignores the broad support for an immigration plan that would provide border security once and for all and then deal with the illegal immigrants who live here.
-
One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
-
One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
-
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
-
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
-
Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.
-
Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.
-
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
-
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
-
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
-
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
-
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
-
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
-
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
-
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
-
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.
-
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
-
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
All anti-slavery famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 4)
