The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
“A choice that is not used is worse than nothing; it is a snare in which a person has trapped himself as… — Soren Kierkeggard Copy Share Image
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Freedom means Freedom for the Group, not Freedom for the Individual. (…) Men must not be slaves to other men, but they… — Liang Qichao Copy Share Image
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body,… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
“had imbibed a prejudice against my uncle’s favorite slave. There was something crawling in his servility; for though outdoor slavery does not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“You will be warm with me in my lodge? I have many buffalo robes. And plenty food. Meat, yes? And my strong… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I remember in my very first fitting, costume designer Patricia Norris gave me a garment with these intricate stitches - stitches over… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me,… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave… — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“I am a slave in your palace." - Sultan Suleyman Khan, Suleyman the Magnificent, The Shadow of God on Earth.” — P.J. Parker Copy Share Image
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“No, I don't care. Tomorrow you leave. But you're mine now. You're still my slave tonight.” — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
“...Your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“If my Master is lost, I'll find him. I'll lead him back to himself, because to serve doesn't always mean to follow.” — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
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