The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“We are often but slaves to the feelings our own body subjects us to.” — Stanislav Stodulka Copy Share Image
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“I am well aware that one can't get along without domineering or being served. Every man needs slaves as he needs fresh… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“that spirit of liberty didn’t extend, in the minds of the Founders, to the slaves who worked their fields, made their beds,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of… — George Grey Copy Share Image
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
Most people say they're slaves, but in my opinion, to say that I am a slave is to take ownership of actually… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that… — Andreas Vesalius Copy Share Image
“I AM THE CAT In Egypt, they worshiped me I am the Cat. Because I bend not to the will of man… — Leila Usher Copy Share Image
“The Captain wouldn’t know donkeys from trained baboons. How can a sailor know of good breeding?” She narrowed her eyes and studied… — John Forrester Copy Share Image
“ When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“This is the war where we change. This is the trickster war. It's where we disappear, just like they desire us disappear.… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Social scientists estimate that 15 to 30 percent, or, "[a]s many as 600,000 to 1.2 million slaves" in antebellum America were Muslims.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. — George Mason Copy Share Image
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
“You would really sacrifice your pride over the fate of a handful of slaves?” — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains. — Hafez Copy Share Image
We might be the master of our own thought, still we are the slaves of our own emotions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.' — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country? — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
“Elders say that too much technology makes us slaves all over again.” — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
“If we are not willing to destroy the beauty we have created, we become slaves to it.” — Moxie Mezcal Copy Share Image
“They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Anybody that competes with slaves becomes a slave," said Harrison thickly, and he left.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves. — David Graeber Copy Share Image