There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
“We’re not descendants of slaves. We’re descendants of free people who were enslaved.' Francia Márquez Mina, Afro-Colombian Vice President of Colombia” — Francia Márquez Mina Copy Share Image
“In Rome, too, slaves were the sunshine of every day and the nightmare of every night. Slavery stoked the empire’s life and… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated… — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
There's always been trying at some stage to design people. And it will always be presented initially as a positive thing, as… — Maria Doyle Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It… — Spike Lee 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
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Try to distract them for as long as you can,” Metabus instructed Puer, throwing his silver wine goblet against the wall, spilling… — Ingrid de Haas Copy Share Image
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The world is truly a terrible place. Every one of my generation is lost, filling the holes which are their lives with… — Jason S. Hornsby Copy Share Image
How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
“From 1783 at the end of the American Revolution to 1861, the number of slaves in the United States increased five times… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My family is from Jamaica, it's why I don't do 'Who Do You Think You Are' because within two or three generations… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
“Even as the armies of slaves were underfed and dying from hunger, some were forced to wear bizarre tin-plate masks, in hundred-degree… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“They have been taught to labor,” the Chicago Tribune editorialized in 1891. “They have been taught Christian civilization, and to speak the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that.… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
White people are so fragile, God bless 'em. 'Well, I didn't own slaves.' No you didn't. Nobody is asking you to take… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests,… — Abdullah Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,'… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Only a very few were true submissive. Most of the applicants didn’t have what it took to be a real slave, even… — Laura Tolomei Copy Share Image
“The six to eight black men were characterized as personal slaves until the mid-1950s, when the political climate changed and it was… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term;… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted… — Sheikh Abdullah Copy Share Image
To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
