When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.” — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands. — Liang Qichao Copy Share Image
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am… — Edwin Booth Copy Share Image
The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“A slave should be sincere, loyal, discreet, clean, modest, honest, graceful, intelligent (that is able to learn what is required for her… — Christina Abernathy Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness… — Harvey Dorfman Copy Share Image
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
How does a weaker minority dominate a physically superior majority? In my research I learned that this is accomplished by destroying the… — Kyle Baker Copy Share Image
An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours.… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh.… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be!… — John Newton Copy Share Image
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes... — David Mazzucchelli Copy Share Image
There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image