Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Get on your knees. I want you to feel me so deep that the belt is of little consequence when it comes… — Alaska Angelini Copy Share Image
“Thoughtout life, we all live our lives assuming two roles, the role of a slave and the role of a master. It… — Nathanael Kanyinga Copy Share Image
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes? — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“I am your servant. I shall not be free. You will protect me; you will keep me safe; you will guard me.… — Ancient Egyptian slave contract Copy Share Image
Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod;… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa],… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Noise was on her list of slave sins, which we knew by heart. Number one: stealing. Number two: disobedience. Number three: laziness.… — sue monk kidd Copy Share Image
If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all… — Fountain Hughes Copy Share Image
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it… — Evagrius Ponticus 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
“There stood one, in physical proportion and stature commanding and exact—in intellect richly endowed—in natural eloquence a prodigy—in soul manifestly "created but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
i do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The former slave told his audience that “there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if you're… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting. — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
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