My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“An entrepreneur is someone who is the king of his business one day and its slave the next.” — Ajeet Sharma Copy Share Image
Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught?… — Courtney M. Privett Copy Share Image
Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
We're going to see Ragnak," Halt told him. "He's going to have to promise to free every slave who fights for Hallasholm."… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe,… — Hasdai ibn Shaprut Copy Share Image
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom. — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“Would you give me anything I asked?” in a tone laced with power. White lines bracketed his lips. “I’ll be no one’s… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities. — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves,… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image