“Both animal and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“Thankfulness allows us to walk through a world inundated by opportunities and possessions, being slaves to neither.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
“To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“But he forgot to close a lock one night, and as a newspaper reported, “the negroes rose and cut the throat of… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
“But why not take pride in this country? It's the envy of the world. A place where any man can realize his… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I began to wonder if she was taking vengeance on behalf of her ancestor women whom her ancestor men turned into… — S. A. David Copy Share Image
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their… — William Cowper 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
Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Alliances with other nations lead to bondage," Zechariah explained. "Joseph started out as Pharaoh's trusted advisor in Egypt, but later generations ended… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
“We were happy and powerful. But the Europeans came to our country; it was from them that I learned the accomplishments which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself--navigation, mathematics, science, literature and what not.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest. If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown ‘soulless’ black slave I… — Viktor Vijay Kumar Copy Share Image
“We’ve been slaves to 440 the wrong things for so long that we’re blind to why we’re in the wrong. We’re still… — Sunshine Somerville 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
“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
“We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
