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
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves,… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities. — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
“Slavery is as much about the psychological control of the master over the slave as of the physical domination, cruelty and exploitation… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term;… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powerful story. You… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
“We had a little slave boy whom we had hired from some one, there in Hannibal. He was from the Eastern Shore… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In the softest little voice he said, “This slave is beneath your attention.” In Akielos, submission was an art, and the slave… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Love Is the Treasure The temple of love is not love itself; True love is the treasure, Not the walls about it.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You’re a slave? (Eleni) I was. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have come here. (Acheron) Take your cloak off and sit, Acheron. You’ve… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Man invents techniques for his own convenience, but he becomes the largest slave of these techniques. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Denying disabled workers their disability and workers compensation payments is akin to turning them into a slave.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
Financial freedom is our birthright, rather than the "slave walk" of the Monday through Friday grind. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
“The greedy bastard, thought Weintî. He knows perfectly well that twenty shekels is the going rate for a female household slave of… — Betty Cross Copy Share Image
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
“You mean you are now my slave without illusions, and for that reason you shall feel the weight of my foot without… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We haven’t been strangers since I pulled you out of the slave quarters to train you as a soldier.” — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
![“. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.” quote by Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/973/thomas-huxley-1183_bible_i-fail-to-find-a-trace-in-protestantism_1736418.jpg)
![“The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect.More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2f9/naomi-wolf-1344_birth_the-human-beings-at-the-helm-of-the-new_2081586.jpg)
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