It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave… — Robert Purvis Copy Share Image
When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a… — Spartacus Copy Share Image
This country of ours was built on violence; If your ass got in the way, you was killed in silence. And these… — Masta Ace Copy Share Image
You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
I know I'm a Son of God, an heir of God, and a joint heir of Christ. I'm seated with him in… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies.… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation… — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every… — Bill Shankly Copy Share Image
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and… — Donald James Copy Share Image
“There was no slave,’ said Laurent. ‘He never existed. I don’t know what manner of man stands before me now. All I… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“There was always something about our family, and I don't mean color--there was something about us that impeded you. You think like… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit,… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
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