Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
Farms, whether small or large, are places where slaves are kept. The animals are fattened up to be eaten, or exploited for… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“if you think you see no slaves in pennsylvania," replies capt. zhang, his face as smooth as suet, "why, look again. they… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“in 1851, an aged black woman, who had been born a slave in New York, tall, thin, wearing a gray dress and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
“The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority… — Lucy Beckett Copy Share Image
There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The world is filled with people who are no longer needed—and who try to make slaves of all of us—and they have… — Woodie Gurthie Copy Share Image
Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“The plight of the dispossessed citizens might not have been so dire had they been allowed to transition into the labor force… — Mike Duncan Copy Share Image
Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored… — Lerone Bennett, Jr Copy Share Image
“It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“I work as fast as I can. Binah will come soon looking for me. It’s Mother, however, who descends the back steps… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
“It is especially important to remember that the ownership of humans is possible too; not in terms of actual slavery, which they… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We are not only slaves of the culture in which we have been brought up; we are also slaves to the vast… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“To us, the high-resounding “isms” to which our contemporaries ask; us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile:… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“Cal and Maven are deadly creatures, soldiers. But their battle isn't just on the lines. It's here, in a palace, on the… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
“What did you find out?” I asked. “That’s Prince Jason’s ship, all right,” he replied. “I talked to one of the crewmen… — Esther M. Friesner Copy Share Image
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Progressives have spent the better part of a hundred years pushing their agenda - and they've hijacked everything from our kindergartens to… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“I had at one time over forty scholars, and those of the right sort, ardently desiring to learn. They were of all… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We've rigged the entire system of living in harmony with nature against ourselves. We raise our children & inculcate various "isms" into… — Mamur Mustapha Copy Share Image
I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“It had gone so far that mothers in certain regions where the slave scouts were most rife, such as Eliana, disfigured their… — Maria Turtschaninoff Copy Share Image
