Was the collaboration of some slaves any different than the silence of some Iranians who stood by and did nothing as Savak… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln did speak about keeping the man before the dollar, but he was talking at that moment about slavery, and referring… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Ah, careful there!” The man thrust his arm behind my back and braced me. “If you fall over, you might hit your… — Esther M. Friesner Copy Share Image
Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish.… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift… — Meat Loaf Copy Share Image
“Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the "white sails" of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas,… — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Apollyon stared at her. Was he making a terrible mistake by helping her? A part of him said to leave now before… — Felicity E. Heaton Copy Share Image
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with… — Joe Bob Briggs Copy Share Image
...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Hata hivyo, Shetani anaweza kutudanganya kupitia tamaduni zetu tulizozaliwa nazo. Utamaduni, dunia tunapoishi, ndiyo chanzo cha udanganyifu huu. Yesu Kristo alikufa msalabani… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“I was a slave to it, which was ironic since she was supposed to be my slave. She played her part well,… — C.L. Parker Copy Share Image
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
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