A lot of enslaved people actually made money, but they had no power. — William C. Rhoden Copy Share Image
“We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.” — Travis Luedke Copy Share Image
It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“for far longer: Blacks were enslaved in this country for 244 years, from 1619 to 1863. As of 2010, they have been free for 147 years.” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.” — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.” — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
“She had made a vow—a vow to free Eyllwe. So in between moments of despair and rage and grief, in between thoughts… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
There is the devil at the door. I'm nearly going under, can't help but wonder who am I working for? No one's… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
People speaking into handheld devices while they walk down the street and saying to the device, "I'm walking down the street now."… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of… — Elizabeth Nunez Copy Share Image
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“(Amongst those thus enslaved was Lady Johanna Swann, a fifteen-year-old niece of the Lord of Stonehelm. When her infamously niggardly uncle refused… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains—whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The Irish were poor, but not enslaved. He had come here to hack away at the ropes that held American slavery in… — Colum McCann 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
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
