“There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,” — George R.R. Martin 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
There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850. — John Legend Copy Share Image
I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Sleep and dream is all I crave, I travel far across the Milky Way. To my master I become a slave 'til… — Van Halen Copy Share Image
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
“He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare… — Thomas Jefferson 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
You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Women were forbidden to suckle for longer than sixteen months and were separated from their children at this stage. Slave owners wanted… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Things were different back then. Today if a woman was asked to do the things we did back then, she would revolt,… — Susan Lynn Peterson Copy Share Image
I have killed, robbed and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine and I would… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“And, to tell finally my greatest service, I've kept him from a thousand vicious acts, for low and vile things could never… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
There's something about the weekend, even for non-religious people, that feels sacred, so a violation of that sanctified time is almost a… — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
