If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Rousseau declares, that a woman should never, for a moment feel herself independent, that she should be governed by fear to exercise… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing… — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
“The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I have tried to share my philosophy that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. I… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
I could kiss you forever," she murmured against his lips, sucking at the lower one, playing with the upper, his body weight… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
God took Eve from the side of Adam, not from his foot to be his menial or slave or servant, not from… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them:… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew… — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or… — Jesse Shera Copy Share Image
Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
![“Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful…” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/afb/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_abstract_science-only-means-knowledge-and-for-gre_734948.jpg)
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