Top Slaves Quotes

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

Slavery was never abolished.It was just renamed.

Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy - and it w...

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

And so we smile on,Feeding the truths we shareWith a union of our souls,Cathedral slaves of our passionWhich builds beauty amongst chaos.

White ain't nothing.'Mama's grip did not lessen. 'It is something, Cassie. White is something just like black is something. Everybody born on this Earth is something, and nobody, no matter what color...

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong. I want to be liked by more people, I want to be held in higher regard than others. I want to feel va...

A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa centuries ago...

Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married wo...

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

If you find God, you shall be free forever.

I think I'll wear the Chian outfit,' he said to his body servant standing waiting for orders. Many men in Marius's position would have lain back in the bath water and demanded that they be scrubbed, s...

Making wine and drinking wine is not new to African Americans and others in the Diaspora. South Africa has a three-century history in growing, harvesting and distilling grapes as wine. The entire cont...

I must purchase this eunuch from You, she said to Ptah-nem-hotep, Who smiled agreeably. Are they not delightful? He asked, and looked at the dark bodies of these five slaves with the same love I had s...

The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission

Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard--not on Earth--not any place where the hammer of Thor can be swung--or where men of good faith hold freedom dear!

Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'?

Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.