My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
“One class. No masters. No slaves. No black. No white. No Jew. No Christian. One race-- The human race.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Both slaves and owners were human, and strong relationships often grew between them. But” — Robert K McIver Copy Share Image
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“We are slaves to the pleasures the powerful allow us to have. That is if we're good dogs.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
So when the slaves got back from the fields, they was too tired to revolt against they masters. So what we're sayin'… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
Those Who Are Slaves Of Desire, Are Slaves To The Whole World. But To Those For Whom Desire Itself Is A Slave,… — Pacifiersucker 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
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
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by… — Gary Hamel 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
“Their laughter would ring out abruptly, a sound Mother welcomed. “Our slaves are happy,” she would boast. It never occurred to her… — Sue Monk Kidd 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
“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
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
The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they… — Michael Moore 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
“As for the young man carrying the groceries, he was a thin, fair-skinned young man, and I would have said that he… — V.S. Naipaul 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
“precisely because Africans were fitter in tropical climates than Europeans, they ended up as the slaves of European masters!” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves. — Lee Harvey Oswald Copy Share Image
“Power isn't the big cars and bent slaves Power is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.” — Sapphire Belucci Copy Share Image
True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind; this short life counts for too little… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'. — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
“We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“There was no slavery in the free city of Pentos. Nonetheless, they were slaves.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the Caribbean had their breastfeeding time limited so that they could breed more slaves for their owners.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A dark-skinned young woman sat on the roof of the aftcastle, one leg swinging as she watched the new slaves shuffle across.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches. — Horace Copy Share Image
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves. — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
