God took Eve from the side of Adam, not from his foot to be his menial or slave or servant, not from… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it.… — African Spir Copy Share Image
If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job,… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
Of course you can more easily recognise the outsiders because they have a different skin color. But let us take for instance… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the cultures that don't castrate you to make you a slave, they castrate your mind. They make sex so filthy and evil… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners.… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them… — Ayn Rand 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
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas,… — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
“Apollyon stared at her. Was he making a terrible mistake by helping her? A part of him said to leave now before… — Felicity E. Heaton Copy Share Image
I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish.… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift… — Meat Loaf Copy Share Image
“Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the "white sails" of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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