I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche.… — Patrice O'Neal Copy Share Image
We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or… — George Mason Copy Share Image
There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a piece of advice,” she murmured. “Rome only exists because of slaves. That’s how it functions. We are… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson 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
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
I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I thought about ancient times when we didn't have electric light. People were slaves to the ebb and the flow of the… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I will…I have come to peace… — Timothy McVeigh Copy Share Image
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
“Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood.… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
