“I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than to live life as a puppet or a slave” — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
To whomever gives a kiss or a blow Render a kiss or blow But to whomever gives when you are unable to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Look neither ahead nor behind, look into yourself, with neither fear nor regret. No one descends into himself so long as he… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves… — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
“A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a piece of advice,” she murmured. “Rome only exists because of slaves. That’s how it functions. We are… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say my dad was a slave driver, but he wanted the best for us. — Matt Hughes Copy Share Image
Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave. — A.C.H. Smith Copy Share Image
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image