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
There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men,… — Zeno of Citium Copy Share Image
What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands. — Liang Qichao Copy Share Image
While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
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
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
In the Story of Reality a man is a helpless slave - enslaved to his own passions, the flesh, and enslaved to… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige,… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if… — Angela Carter 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
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image