Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Lord Brougham
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King 28/08/1963
Category: Slavery
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson 1784
From his denunciation of negro slavery.
Category: Great American Quotes, Slavery, Religion
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt the Younger 18/11/1783
Speaking in opposition to Fox's East India Bill
Category: Slavery
