Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed. — James Oglethorpe Copy Share Image
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze… — Dudley Randall Copy Share Image
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may*… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
It is important to honor and remember the millions of individuals who suffered the horrors of slavery. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
“So, your friends call you Bastian. Your enemies call you asshole. What do lovers call you?” “Why do you want to know?”… — Rachel Grant Copy Share Image
You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
“Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage...You'll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
