How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I find it fascinating that Paul [the apostol], writing to the Galatians, responds to the question, "What does it mean to live… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present… — Jack London Copy Share Image
It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
A really large percentage of kids from Duke go to work on Wall Street, and they make a lot of money, but… — Mike Posner Copy Share Image
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries --… — Saadat Hasan Manto Copy Share Image
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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
“Any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told that… — Elizabeth Freeman 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
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
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
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
The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and]… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land.… — Eric Foner 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
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