To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. — George Mason Copy Share Image
There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker. — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin. — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It's funny: over time, if you're fortunate, you build a nice career, and you have these interesting moments, and I would not,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived,… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The idea of submission is never meant to allow someone to overstep another's boundaries. Submission only has meaning in the context of… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We are not the technology. It should be our - you know, our slave, the technology. But it's rapidly becoming our master… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?" — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“I was a slave to my own darkness, believing in my false created, thought-identified identity so much that it forged what felt… — Andrew Kendall Copy Share Image
Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
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