It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look.… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as… — Craig Brown 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
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
'Colonialism' and 'democracy' are two contradictory terms. In order to be 'democratic' a country has to be free. Right now, Indonesian people… — Andre Vltchek 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
In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
