“Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Those Who Are Slaves Of Desire, Are Slaves To The Whole World. But To Those For Whom Desire Itself Is A Slave,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren,… — Samuel Sewall Copy Share Image
Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do… — Fanny Kemble 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
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,—and to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“In mechanical terms, humans are quite efficient converters of food into energy, so human slaves were often more valuable than animal slaves,… — David Christian Copy Share Image
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November… — Questlove Copy Share Image
We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical. — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
So when the slaves got back from the fields, they was too tired to revolt against they masters. So what we're sayin'… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever? — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Never become a slave to your own thinking and your own self. Understand that you are continuously changing. But, in which way… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine. — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image