As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. — Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Copy Share Image
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“I forgot that in the land of my birth the shadows are too dense for light to penetrate.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine 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
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
Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved.… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
“Slavery was as customary as prisons are today. Few could imagine an ordered world without them.” — Ibram X. Kendi 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
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
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
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of… — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery,… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“As a highly successful slave trader, James DeWolf owned all of his vessels outright. DeWolf also held 75 percent interest in many… — Cynthia Mestad Johnson Copy Share Image
No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Even the Declaration of Independence starts out all men are created equal, so I see my advocacy as part of an effort… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness,… — Mika Copy Share Image
May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice… — Jose Maria Morelos Y Pavón Copy Share Image
There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.” — Barry Estabrook Copy Share Image
“You would really sacrifice your pride over the fate of a handful of slaves?” — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
“It’s just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It’s always the lesser of two evils.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
