“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives,… — Dave Galanter Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“We had a little slave boy whom we had hired from some one, there in Hannibal. He was from the Eastern Shore… — Mark Twain 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
“In the softest little voice he said, “This slave is beneath your attention.” In Akielos, submission was an art, and the slave… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“I guess we’re stuck with each other then,” she said. “For the time being.” “There are worse fates,” I said. She rolled… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The tapping grows insistent, and I turn, intending to tell off the Cadet. Instead, I'm faced with a slave-girl looking up at… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
This is one of their [the Christians'] rules. Let no man that is learned, wise, or prudent come among us: but if… — Aulus Cornelius Celsus Copy Share Image
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
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