“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves. — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“A choice that is not used is worse than nothing; it is a snare in which a person has trapped himself as… — Soren Kierkeggard Copy Share Image
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous.… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people...… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
