When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“A man could be outwardly obedient, but tardiness revealed his inner determination, proof that slavery affects only the body. It does not… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our… — Rza Copy Share Image
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.” — Buffy the Vampire Slayer writers Copy Share Image
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
“O, you happy free women, contrast your New Year's day with that of the poor bond-woman! With you it is a pleasant… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway?… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“I hope you're not proposing to enslave us,' said Twoflower. Marchesa looked genuinely shocked. 'Certainly not! Whatever could have given you that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“There are no gods, paladin. There is no afterlife, no eternal reward. You, in fact, are a slave to a creature you… — Alec Hutson 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
“I once two beautiful children playing together. One was a fair white child; the other was her slave, and also her sister.… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“It may sound exaggerated to say that the clash of civilizations and cultures as what we're witnessing in Europe between muslims and… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery. — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” — International Reading Association Reading Today Online Copy Share Image
“A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom. — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
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