The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.” — Todd Garlington Copy Share Image
Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up. — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history. — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul… [I]n this trinity… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“A man who devotes his time and efforts, under his own direction, at his own pleasure, from his own property, in order… — Seth Daniel Parker Copy Share Image
Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Man treats woman as his own property and not as being capable of feelings, like himself. The way man treats women is… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example. — Richard Furman Copy Share Image
You think than you are free to do whatever, but in fact you are a slave of doing whatever. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave. — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.” — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am… — Edwin Booth Copy Share Image
Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands. — Liang Qichao Copy Share Image
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes... — David Mazzucchelli Copy Share Image