“There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
A person is master to those words they don't say, and slave to the ones they do. — John Reyes Copy Share Image
There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850. — John Legend Copy Share Image
Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“A slave was the property of his or her master as were all the women in his family, and it was argued… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave,” said Vorbis. “So I understand,” said the Tyrant. “I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He took liberties, doing what he liked, taking what he liked when he liked it, rejecting me over and over again in… — Staci Hart Copy Share Image
And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which… — Scott Hastie Copy Share Image
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.” — Robert Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Vincent Gallo has put a curse on my colon and a hex on my prostate. He called me a 'fat pig' in… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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