Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don't need society's standard of beauty or fashion, to define… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large. — Sue Monk Kidd 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
Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and… — Lewis Henry Morgan Copy Share Image
it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
