Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight,… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a slave to electronic devices. I don't want to be connected to my friends. I don't want… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Are you mine?" I asked, low knowing the answer already. "Completely." His voice thrummed with conviction. And oh, I liked it. "So… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had… — Anthony Copy Share Image
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness.… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free;… — Manu Herbstein Copy Share Image
“If you are not strong enough to fight you have no choice but to accept the life of a slave. The hunter… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew - even… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,'… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
