The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“Slavery was as customary as prisons are today. Few could imagine an ordered world without them.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved.… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.” — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, brought [Tomas Jefferson and John Adams] together in 1812, and they went on to exchange letters for… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party… — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
“Thus, when the slave asks for virtuous freedom, the cunning slaveholder, knowing his ignorance, cheats him with a dose of vicious dissipation,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I always compare young missioners to the kids who naively signed up to go to Iraq to fight terrorism. They are just… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“When someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose.… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free. — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
The British had this idea they were heroes in the anti-slavery movement but they also were beneficiaries of the slavery trade. It… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave,” said Vorbis. “So I understand,” said the Tyrant. “I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“slavery was a worldwide institution, entrenched on every inhabited continent, subjugating people of every color, language, and religion,” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery. — James Forten Copy Share Image
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
“We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that. — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
“Slavery was abolished in 1355 because of church teachings stating that all men are equal in the eyes of God.§” — Christina Johansson Robinowitz Copy Share Image
“She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery— boredom.” — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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