Slaves have to obey their masters.

I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters…

— Jan Hus

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

— Dan Simmons

“The gospel turns that drudgery into delight. It changes us from being slaves who have to obey God to sons and daughters who want…

— J.D. Greear

“Slavery is as old as civilization, and has been practiced all over the world. It was ubiquitous in antiquity, and is taken for granted…

— David Livingstone Smith

“Don't you know that if you offer yourselves to someone † as obedient •slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey — either of sin…

— Anonymous

In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat…

— John Shelby Spong

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

— Ntozake Shange

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

— Anonymous

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed…

— Edward Gibbon

They are hare-brain'd slaves.

— William Shakespeare

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived…

— Gerry Spence

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the…

— Albert Camus

“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln