It's easy to let ourselves off the hook and say, 'Oh, I would never own slaves.' Because this is in the DNA… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated… — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
There's always been trying at some stage to design people. And it will always be presented initially as a positive thing, as… — Maria Doyle Kennedy Copy Share Image
Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“He was appalled at the awful intellectual chasm that yawned between him and his people. He could never cross it and explain… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Studies of the people named and described in earliest Christian texts show that, right from the earliest years, they included craftsmen, merchants,… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
“January 25, 1785, nineteen people gathered at the home of innkeeper John Simmons to form a society that would safeguard blacks who… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“We are to free the slaves because we were once slaves. Sabbath is a remembrance of the stale bondage of Egypt and… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
“Ah, my dear friend, cheer up... After all, we have peace! And because there is peace, the occupiers can't behave so abominably… — Andrzej Szczypiorski Copy Share Image
“The Cantii, like most of the tribes of Prydain, had always kept slaves. We bought and sold them the same way as… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
“Mungu hutumia watu 'wajinga' na 'wapumbavu' kufanya mambo makubwa katika maisha yao na ya watu wengine. Katika Biblia, Musa aliitwa mjinga alipokiuka… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And… — Thalia Copy Share Image
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
“Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold onto it like a blanket. They don't… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Eddy dreamed of owning her own restaurant. It was a common belief that women like her, the descendant of slaves, had no… — Beverly Jenkins Copy Share Image
The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“Who among us is living in the past? You, who would bestow the horrors of the toiling industrial age upon this country,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
“He led the way past the main house away from the slave cabins and other buildings, away from the small slave children… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white… — Roman Baldorioty de Castro Copy Share Image
“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past… — Arrian Copy Share Image
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
