“I am not capable of true friendship. One of the two friends is always the slave of the other, although, often, neither… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated… — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition.… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Of course you can more easily recognise the outsiders because they have a different skin color. But let us take for instance… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the… — Ramsey Lewis Copy Share Image
DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Stand, Blue Eyes,” he told her gently. She tipped her head back. Tears shimmered on her cheeks. “I’ll do anything, Hunter. I’ll… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty,… — Robert Cochrane Copy Share Image
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
“ Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Genetically modified foods and chemical drugs. Two things that will change our consciousness as we become slaves to the world we made,… — Steven Machat Copy Share Image
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . .… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
![“So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.” quote by William Wilberforce](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3c6/william-wilberforce-8564_abolition_so-enormous-so-dreadful-so-irremediable_2916519.jpg)
