If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share Image
“At this point we can finally see what's really at stake in our peculiar habit of defining ourselves simultaneously as master and… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and… — David Bradley Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are… — Denis Diderot 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
In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave,… — Roger B. Taney 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
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
I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today.… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I had a Saturday job in a chemist. The pay was something ridiculous like £2 an hour - it was slave labour… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who are not capable of sinning are said that they have attained freedom. The knowledge of the Truth raises them even… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live… — Jack London 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
“I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
I don't know that I would have the courage to come over to a new country where the religion is different, the… — Alan Gratz 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
“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
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
It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“And that great mixture was brought to America in the holds of slave ships. To the north, the south. Their sons and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“My well-beloved was stripped. Knowing my whim, She wore her tinkling gems, but naught besides: And showed such pride as, while her… — Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I write about heroes all the time, and I'm struck by how much of what fills us with wonder in the man-made… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
When it comes to how the slaves treat each other: If you've been brutalized all your life - if you have seen… — Colson Whitehead 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)
