By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities. — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Some things are not worth dying for, but without them life is not worth living.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“«Since when you have taken people for slaves and they were born free»” — Umar ibn Al-Khattab Copy Share Image
With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“switched to slaves. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
“That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Social scientists estimate that 15 to 30 percent, or, "[a]s many as 600,000 to 1.2 million slaves" in antebellum America were Muslims.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is the war where we change. This is the trickster war. It's where we disappear, just like they desire us disappear.… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“I heard other people speaking in the name of freedom, and the more they defended this unique right, the more enslaved they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
“Who can measure the amount of Anglo-Saxon blood coursing in the veins of American slaves?” — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Those Walmarts weren't buildings, they were bunkers. Those weren't parking lots out front, they were kill zones.” — Gard Skinner Copy Share Image
“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.” — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image