I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Is it the body you are going to serve and be a slave to or is it the spirit you are going… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible?” — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Little brother, I don’t mean to be a downer, but we’re talking about War here. There’s no way to mitigate damages. He… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“…how ready they themselves are at bottom to make one pay; how they crave to be hangmen. There is among them an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Captain wouldn’t know donkeys from trained baboons. How can a sailor know of good breeding?” She narrowed her eyes and studied… — John Forrester Copy Share Image
“He grabbed something off the floor and held it in front of his hips as he stood up. She drank in the… — JR Ward Copy Share Image
No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
