Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
We were all born robots. We were all born slaves to our sin. We did what the flesh and what the devil… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with… — Horace Copy Share Image
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . .… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“Teach him to worry about whether he wants to be free, and he will not free himself. Again, it may be said… — G. K. Chesterton 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
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.” I gave further thought to the life of… — Gary Keesee Copy Share Image
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch 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
Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that… — Homer Copy Share Image
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? So she answered… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Are you mine?" I asked, low knowing the answer already. "Completely." His voice thrummed with conviction. And oh, I liked it. "So… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
![“I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.” quote by John Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f0b/john-brown-15897_deny_i-want-you-to-understand-that-i-respect_2400722.jpg)
