We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of… — Bernard Werber Copy Share Image
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The morality that would un-self man is the morality of decline par excellence—the fact, "I am declining," transposed into the imperative, "all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and… — Marcus Rediker Copy Share Image
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till… — George Washington Copy Share Image
DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the… — Ramsey Lewis Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Stand, Blue Eyes,” he told her gently. She tipped her head back. Tears shimmered on her cheeks. “I’ll do anything, Hunter. I’ll… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life… — David Walker Copy Share Image
Was the collaboration of some slaves any different than the silence of some Iranians who stood by and did nothing as Savak… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe… — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human… — Gary Steiner Copy Share Image
In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in… — Mark Mirabello Copy Share Image
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained… — Jack London Copy Share Image
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door,—a woman of the kindest heart… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
