Social & Racial Sayings
222 sayings found from 222 authors
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except with their wives and slave girls, for these are lawful to them.
Therefore, the bondage of the will to sin remains and yet such slavery is a voluntary and willful captivity.
Had I anything to do with the negro, I would confine them by strict law to their own species, and put them on a national equalization.
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.
The greatest force is common blood. The Chinese belong to the yellow race because they come from the blood stock of the yellow race.
Clearly it's not easy for woman in modern society, no matter where we live. We still have to go extra mile to prove that we are equal to men.
If a barber, without the knowledge of the owner of a slave, cuts off the slave's 'mark,' he shall cut off the barber's fingers.
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
Melantho, a female slave in Odysseus' household, is called a 'little dog' by Odysseus.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty.
They probably think because I am so small and young, nothing of greatness and class can come out of me; but they shall soon find out.
I would like to see immigration exceptions for 'smart people.'
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
The Tsar is the father of all the people, and he must love all his children equally.
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
We live in a world that talks about innovations, about gender equality. We cannot see a country going back decades and centuries.
Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.
I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body — you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.