Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“She narrowed her eyes. "You lost the collar I gave you." It chafed. And I wasn't born to be a slave.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo… — George Grey Copy Share Image
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Don't be slave, walk on the sky. One betrays to his friend because he is a slave of wealth or lust” — Hamid Karima Copy Share Image
Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late... — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. — Robert Treat Paine Copy Share Image
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This country of ours was built on violence; If your ass got in the way, you was killed in silence. And these… — Masta Ace Copy Share Image
When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a… — Spartacus Copy Share Image
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave… — Robert Purvis Copy Share Image
We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Have we freed this man or cursed him?" he wondered aloud. "Freedom is never a curse, brother," Thirty-four insisted. "But it is… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that? — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad. — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image