“To disarm the people--that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.”

“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them..." -George Mason”

“The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.”

“There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.”

“We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.”

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

“I think women gather up into themselves what they have been through much more than we (men) do. To them, what is past becomes a real part of them, as much a part of them as a limb; to us it's always something external, at the best the rung of a ladder, at the worst a weight on the heel.”