Books Quote by Paul Beatty

“He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. This was the…

— Michael Shaara

“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.”

— Robert Ingersoll

“I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force…

— Anthony Ryan

“Give a slave slaves, and he will support slavery.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“How could he explain to Marjorie that he wasn’t supposed to be here? Alive. Free. That the fact that he had been born, that…

— Yaa Gyasi

“There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.”

— Carl Sagan

“He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery...No, I will not stay. Let…

— Harriet Jacobs

“American Slavery, American Freedom,”

— Andrew Levy

“Time has now come which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“America has a unique type of slavery that looks like freedom.”

— Bryant McGill

“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom,…

— Judy Croome

“I wrote 300 books to escape the system, to buy my freedom, to escape slavery. Whoever thinks they need a job, is a slave…

— Robin Sacredfire