There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850. — John Legend Copy Share Image
It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is… — Ousmane Sembene Copy Share Image
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves. — George Mason Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's… — Robert Falls Copy Share Image
“the life of a slave must be different from a master but living life its self is the same” — mariam Copy Share Image
The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
To see the Law by Christ fulfilled, And hear His pardoning voice Changes a slave into a child, And duty into choice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer. — Sepp Blatter Copy Share Image
Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers… — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi Copy Share Image
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“The opposite of a slave is not a free man. It’s a worshiper. The one who is most free is the one… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“He was content to wait, his bare limbs on the sheets heavy, the gold slave cuffs and collar his only adornments. He… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad… — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
“Like a cord between us, it binds me to you, where you go I must then follow. If you go too far,… — Alexia Purdy Copy Share Image
Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“I was never your slave, Caleb. You tried, I’ll give you that, but we both know you belong to me as much… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Since I have become a slave of writing, the pleasure of reading has ended for me.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A person is master to those words they don't say, and slave to the ones they do. — John Reyes Copy Share Image