It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or… — Jesse Shera Copy Share Image
You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and… — Donald James Copy Share Image
When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice… — Tobias Wolff 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
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition.… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies.… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln got shot and died, Freed the slaves so they put him on the five. — Too $hort Copy Share Image
A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe,… — Axel Munthe Copy Share Image
The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image