I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“...Your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. — George Reisman Copy Share Image
Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed,… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
I believe that the only possible reason for our being here is to serve in some form or another but that the… — Hildegard Knef Copy Share Image
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Like the amazing story of Anthony Johnson. This man was a slave, then became free, accumulated 250 acres, and even had his… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Please, Hunter, please, I wouldn’t ask if I had anyone else to turn to. I thought you were my friend.” Hunter studied… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
![“The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever…” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c06/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_absence_the-story-in-12-years-a-slave-serves-as_2982882.jpg)
