Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
And verily for everything a slave loses there is a substitue,but the one who loses Allah wil never find anything to replace… — Islam Copy Share Image
“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I WOULD RATHER FIGHT AND DIE FOR FREEDOM THAN TO BEG FOR MY LIFE AND LIVE LIKE A SLAVE — Jah Reign Copy Share Image
There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and… — Dan Fogler 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
“But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As he plods behind Cameron and Summer, he can’t help but stare at Summer’s exposed, glistening skin. His thoughts aren’t depraved or… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that… — Louis Wigfall Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't somebody have the same legal rights as everybody else in our society? What is that about? I don't even understand… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so. — John Norman Copy Share Image
“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
“The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Think you're a slave and you'll find a master; think you're a master and slaves will find you” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image