The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going… — Nicholas Cresswell Copy Share Image
The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
To whomever gives a kiss or a blow Render a kiss or blow But to whomever gives when you are unable to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had… — John Brown Gordon Copy Share Image
The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“But she couldn’t help glancing at the rug before the desk—a movement Arobynn either noted or expected. “A new rug,” he said,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Look neither ahead nor behind, look into yourself, with neither fear nor regret. No one descends into himself so long as he… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves… — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
“A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from… — David Foster Copy Share Image
TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished:… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image
I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark… — Trevor P. Wardlaw Copy Share Image
The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
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