Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and… — Leonard Wibberley Copy Share Image
There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who… — Andrew Mwenda Copy Share Image
We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
You had one guy who was a slave, and another who wasn't. And I actually know what happened to them. [Juan ]… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“When I see a poor person I think of me, and then I think, maybe I should pay my clones for all… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins,… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
In 1855, a former American slave remarked: "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that if you translated all the gadgets and technology in our houses to make our lives easier and save… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was… — Olaudah Equiano Copy Share Image
Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant,… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Uspavanost je kazna A borbom zaslužen život Predznak buduće slave Nagrada, zdravlje i let” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
“Did you ask to have sex with all those men? “Did you ask to be sold as a sex slave?” — Gladys Lawson Copy Share Image
The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image