. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Slavery is as much about the psychological control of the master over the slave as of the physical domination, cruelty and exploitation… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Then one day along come a Friday and that a unlucky star day and I playin' round de house and marster Williams… — James Green Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The Quran says nothing about the veil, except for an injunction to veil the bosom, which is obvious. As for the face,… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and M a slave! You move merrily… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Wayne Brady, I don’t understand why people keep joking that you’re not black. Wayne Brady, you are BLACK. After all, I only… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my… — Lee “Scratch” Perry 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
To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public… — David P. Ellerman Copy Share Image
One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting… — Susie Larson Copy Share Image
We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
“She would- never mind. She was his servant. Slave mentality. This was not the girl I asked to marry me. She was… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Her arousal shocked her. It went against everything she believed in to act like a man’s slave and yet this was different.… — Elliot Mabeuse Copy Share Image
Whoever has become a servant of the Lord fears only his Master. But whoever is without the fear of God is often… — John Climacus Copy Share Image