He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
“To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.” — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed. — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery. — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
We need a Slavery Remembrance Day... we also need to accord dignity and respect to the enslaved people... with a Congressional gold… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“The slave is held most securely when he is held by the chains of his own will and of his own fears,… — Michael Bunker Copy Share Image
The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid… — Gertrude Mongella Copy Share Image
“Everybody granted that if "Tom" were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him--it would be no loss to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The 1860s ushered in a number of changes that profoundly transformed the nation. While the emancipation of enslaved people and the increased… — Jim Downs Copy Share Image
“It was not that “slave trade profits” flowed through some fiendish channels into the dark satanic mills. But the burgeoning Atlantic trade… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice Copy Share Image
“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The Matrix can feel like a pretty hopeless place. I get that. Nobody in his or her right mind (a tiny minority,… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image