The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in…

Slaves no doubt, but still men.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, …

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his ra…