And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
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I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that… — Homer Copy Share Image
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others… — John Brown 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
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
Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough),… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves… — Richard Furman 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
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
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
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All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
We were all born robots. We were all born slaves to our sin. We did what the flesh and what the devil… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
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The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . .… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
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The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with… — Horace Copy Share Image
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The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
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![“I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.” quote by John Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0b/john-brown-15897_deny_i-want-you-to-understand-that-i-respect_2400722.jpg)
