Slave Quotes · Page 82

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

— Edward Abbey

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

— Benjamin Franklin

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

— Assata Shakur

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

— Stephen Vizinczey

... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it.…

— Joycelyn Elders

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even…

— Daniel Webster

I remember in my very first fitting, costume designer Patricia Norris gave me a garment with these intricate stitches - stitches over…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

— Norbert Wiener

Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet…

— John Gay

If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health…

— Rand Paul

Like the amazing story of Anthony Johnson. This man was a slave, then became free, accumulated 250 acres, and even had his…

— Henry Louis Gates

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X

Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For…

— Anthony the Great

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

— Constance Baker Motley

I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I…

— Megan Whalen Turner

I nearly forgot, Ragnak had a further message for you. He said if we lose this battle and loses his slaves as…

— John Flanagan

Of the people, by the people, for the people,

— Sun Yat-sen

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is…

— Raimund Abraham

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which…

— Georg Brandes

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

— Robert Genn

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some…

— John Brown

To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the…

— Glenn Beck

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk…

— Quincy Jones