People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
seeming's enough for slaves of space and time ours is the now and here of freedom . Come — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she… — Anna Wickham Copy Share Image
I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each… — Euripides 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
Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners.… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
“the cultures that don't castrate you to make you a slave, they castrate your mind. They make sex so filthy and evil… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If abuses are destroyed, we must destroy them. If slaves are freed, we must free them. If new truths are discovered, we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“The money we slaved for, bought information that kept us all trapped inside a chamber of lies and running on a greed… — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. — Hans Morgenthau Copy Share Image
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“$1,200, That was the price of a man in those days. Now you can call him black, or you can call him… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
“Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“If my Master is lost, I'll find him. I'll lead him back to himself, because to serve doesn't always mean to follow.” — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
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