“In the softest little voice he said, “This slave is beneath your attention.” In Akielos, submission was an art, and the slave… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
“I remained abroad ten months, which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that time, I never saw the slightest… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The Elsinore's bow tilted skyward while her stern fell into a foaming valley. Not a man had gained his feet. Bridge and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“This is what happened: we were completely abandoned. No one had the courage to attempt the impossible. We were slaves without honor.… — Anna Rosmus Copy Share Image
...How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. (… — Kenneth W. Royce Copy Share Image
When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“I work as fast as I can. Binah will come soon looking for me. It’s Mother, however, who descends the back steps… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
“It is especially important to remember that the ownership of humans is possible too; not in terms of actual slavery, which they… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We are not only slaves of the culture in which we have been brought up; we are also slaves to the vast… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Cal and Maven are deadly creatures, soldiers. But their battle isn't just on the lines. It's here, in a palace, on the… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
“To us, the high-resounding “isms” to which our contemporaries ask; us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile:… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“What did you find out?” I asked. “That’s Prince Jason’s ship, all right,” he replied. “I talked to one of the crewmen… — Esther M. Friesner Copy Share Image
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“It had gone so far that mothers in certain regions where the slave scouts were most rife, such as Eliana, disfigured their… — Maria Turtschaninoff Copy Share Image
“Progressives have spent the better part of a hundred years pushing their agenda - and they've hijacked everything from our kindergartens to… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“I had at one time over forty scholars, and those of the right sort, ardently desiring to learn. They were of all… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We've rigged the entire system of living in harmony with nature against ourselves. We raise our children & inculcate various "isms" into… — Mamur Mustapha Copy Share Image
It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“The system was psychological and physical at the same time. The slaves were taught discipline, were impressed again and again with the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
“I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
“Writing about our life in the House of Arcamand in the City State of Etra, I fall back into it and see… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We… — Majid Kazmi Copy Share Image
If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap. When the steel struck… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“We are Turks with the affections of our women; and have made them subscribe to our doctrine too. We let their bodies… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Donna and Grace and so many people—specifically white people—often have understood slavery, and those held in its grip, only in abstract terms.… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I’d like to run away, to flee from what I know, from what is mine, from what I love. I want to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
