Slaves Quotes · Page 10

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

— Julian Assange

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.

— Marianne Williamson

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

— Huey Newton

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to…

— Charles Bukowski

Freedom can only be found when we return to our wild origins..otherwise we are just slaves with suits

— Anonymous

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

— David Graeber

“They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were…

— Adina Porter

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going…

— Nicholas Cresswell

If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women…

— Yoko Ono

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

— Kailash Satyarthi

“I will rape their women, take their children as slaves, and bring their broken gods back to Vaes Dothrak to bow down…

— Anonymous

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made…

— George Farquhar

It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise…

— Nadine Gordimer

“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark…

— Trevor P. Wardlaw

Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished:…

— Milton Meltzer

“How long, exactly, have you been involved in the slave trade?” It couldn’t have been long. Adarlan had only started capturing and…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who…

— Alex Haley

“The slaves destroyed tirelessly. Like the peasants in the Jacquerie or the Luddite wreckers, they were seeking their salvation in the most…

— C.L.R. James

“Some are born rich While others poor; Some are born free While others captives; Some are born blessed While others deprived; Some…

— Emmanuel Aghado

My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

“Don't do that!" she exclaimed, shivering at the realization that it had been his fingers touching her. He gave her his lazy,…

— Richelle Mead

“Anybody that competes with slaves becomes a slave," said Harrison thickly, and he left.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

— Bobby Charlton

“Elders say that too much technology makes us slaves all over again.”

— Paul S. Kemp

“If we are not willing to destroy the beauty we have created, we become slaves to it.”

— Moxie Mezcal

We might be the master of our own thought, still we are the slaves of our own emotions.

— Anonymous

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

— Hafez

Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?

— Muhammad Ali

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

— Niger Innis

Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.”

— David Baldacci

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

— Malcolm X

We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond…

— Timothy B. Tyson

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

— Harriet Tubman

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

— William Lloyd Garrison

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

— Frederick Douglass