A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from… — David Foster Copy Share Image
Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question "Would you… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's no longer necessary to slave over the vocals. I don't sing the lyrics until I write them, and singing is the… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people. — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held'… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
