We're all slaves to death is our biological curse and thus a form of slavery. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“As a rule, I believe people shouldn't follow rules; rules should follow people.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“hierarchy-making was wielded in the service of a political project: enslavement.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Western technology made slavery unnecessary; Western ideas made it intolerable.” — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.” — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free. — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after… — Gus Hall Copy Share Image
All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed,… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we… — Abraham Lincoln 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
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“Abolish all white teachers from schools and universities across the world, and replace them with noncaucasians, and the human race will be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a "parental… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Any human being should be capable of three things to earn such title: live alone, hunt and drive anything with or without… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“A slave was cheaper than a mule. Slavery, despicable topic, rarely appeared in poetry or onstage or in the paintings that decorated… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“While slaveowners worked vigorously to allow slaves only so much biblical teaching as to make them good, docile, submissive slaves, even the… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image