An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?” — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“The country therefore was not “born free” but born slave and free, servant and master, tenant and landlord, poor and rich.” — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted… — Sheikh Abdullah Copy Share Image
The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which… — William Ellery Channing 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
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives,… — Dave Galanter Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a… — Ann Miller Copy Share Image
The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. — Orson Scott Card 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
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“She narrowed her eyes. "You lost the collar I gave you." It chafed. And I wasn't born to be a slave.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo… — George Grey Copy Share Image
“Don't be slave, walk on the sky. One betrays to his friend because he is a slave of wealth or lust” — Hamid Karima Copy Share Image
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. — Robert Treat Paine Copy Share Image
Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late... — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
