This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the Bible, one of the things I think keeps people coming back to it, is that… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Teach him to worry about whether he wants to be free, and he will not free himself. Again, it may be said… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? So she answered… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“He didn't use me like an object, because a thing didn't need to be mastered. He didn't use me like a slave,… — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Farms, whether small or large, are places where slaves are kept. The animals are fattened up to be eaten, or exploited for… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now… — Todd Walker Copy Share Image
Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them:… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew… — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or… — Jesse Shera Copy Share Image
Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
