The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for… — William Borah Copy Share Image
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
“Oh! How heavily the weight of slavery pressed upon me then. I must toil day after day, endure abuse and taunts and… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as… — Randy Weston Copy Share Image
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . .… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“...because slave life had "busted her legs, back, head, eyes, hands, kidneys, womb and tongue," she had nothing left to make a… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These… — Russell Cornell Leffingwell Copy Share Image
The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Because of the expensive system and the competition among various groups, democracy needs a lot of money. As a natural consequence it… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is… — Raimund Abraham Copy Share Image
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Not only was I not born to be a slave: I was not born to hope to become the equal of the… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
“My country again! Mr. Wilson, you have a country; but what country have I, or any one like me, born of slave… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of… — Erik Dammann Copy Share Image
I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental… — Katherine Losse Copy Share Image
Why let them order you about? Why let them tell you to hurry and scurry like ants or maggots? Take your time!… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Those who call me God, will fall into the deep pit of hell. Regard me as one of his slaves and have… — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
