Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right… — Noam Chomsky 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
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave. — Frances M. Beal 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
His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves… — Richard Furman Copy Share Image
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other… — Richard Sibbes 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
When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing… — Barnabe Barnes Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear as clothing or… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image