The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
You had one guy who was a slave, and another who wasn't. And I actually know what happened to them. [Juan ]… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who… — Andrew Mwenda Copy Share Image
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be… — Rush Limbaugh 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
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
“The Elsinore's bow tilted skyward while her stern fell into a foaming valley. Not a man had gained his feet. Bridge and… — Jack London 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
The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property… — Ayn Rand 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
“The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and… — Leonard Wibberley Copy Share Image
God took Eve from the side of Adam, not from his foot to be his menial or slave or servant, not from… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I could kiss you forever," she murmured against his lips, sucking at the lower one, playing with the upper, his body weight… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I have tried to share my philosophy that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. I… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing… — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
“Rousseau declares, that a woman should never, for a moment feel herself independent, that she should be governed by fear to exercise… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to… — Henry Louis Gates 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
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them… — Ayn Rand 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
When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
![“You had one guy who was a slave, and another who wasn't. And I actually know what happened to them. [Juan ] Garrido ended up getting good jobs and a pension in Mexico which was the center of New Spain, as it was called. Esteban ended up being killed by the Zuni Indians.” quote by Henry Louis Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/759/henry-louis-gates-2372_good-job_you-had-one-guy-who-was-a-slave-and-anot_3145014.jpg)
![“[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f66/rush-limbaugh-28_be-a-slave_s-ome-people-are-self-starters-and-some_829997.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)
![“[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.” quote by Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4fd/frederick-douglass-859_brown_john-brown-s-zeal-in-the-cause-of-freedo_2577065.jpg)
