Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“Slaves wait for freedom to fall like music upon their ears whereas kings strive to take it by force” — Fadel Chehade Copy Share Image
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of them… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“We Russians are slaves because we are unable to free ourselves and become citizens rather than subjects.’ Alexander Herzen, (1812–1870)” — Victor Sebestyen Copy Share Image
The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“There will never be slaves in Britain,' Godalming continued, 'but those who stay warm will naturally serve us, as the excellent Bessie… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
“Slaves taken to France from the colonies brought lawsuits against their masters and won their freedom. (Compare this with the infamous Dred… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not… — George Mason Copy Share Image
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks.” — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
“It's painful fighting for freedom. Freedom has demands. To begin, we must admit we're slaves.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed! — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are slaves to the pleasures the powerful allow us to have. That is if we're good dogs.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. — John Milton Copy Share Image
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves. — Lee Harvey Oswald Copy Share Image
“precisely because Africans were fitter in tropical climates than Europeans, they ended up as the slaves of European masters!” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
“Both slaves and owners were human, and strong relationships often grew between them. But” — Robert K McIver Copy Share Image
“One class. No masters. No slaves. No black. No white. No Jew. No Christian. One race-- The human race.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
