We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South]… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave — David Bowie Copy Share Image
All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
“Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which… — Martial Copy Share Image
It's fair to say that there's something retrograde about putting the leader of Star Wars rebellion in the position of "slave in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
We make the commitment to stop for a moment and look at what the mind is doing, what mind state we are… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,… — Noam Chomsky 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
Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am. — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent… — Daniel J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
