From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“An unbroken horse erects his mane, paws the ground and starts back impetuously at the sight of the bridle; while one which… — Rousseau Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land.… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“We preach FREEDOM, not silenced slavery. Stop being a hypocritical element. Do to others what you can accept yourself.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic criminal activities. That's… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery. — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
