John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
“Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave. — Jill Scott 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again.' He then handed him… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
“I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight… — George Will Copy Share Image
The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The individual has totally different interests from the society, because the society has no soul. The society is soulless. And if you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image