Slaves Quotes · Page 8

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

— Ross Kemp

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors

— Plato

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

— Jean Racine

“Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I hate them.”

— Michael D. O'Brien

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

— Howell Cobb

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

— Jonathan Swift

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

— William Hazlitt

“Both animal and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.”

— David Christian

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

— Mikhail Bakunin

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves,…

— Richard V. Allen

But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each…

— Juhani Peltonen

“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade…

— Abhijit Naskar

Most people say they're slaves, but in my opinion, to say that I am a slave is to take ownership of actually…

— Aldis Hodge

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in…

— Samuel Hopkins

“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol,…

— Percival Everett

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,…

— Louisa May Alcott

“The fact remains that women and children were left vulnerable to sickness and disease, manipulative slaveholders, and even apathetic Union officers during…

— Jim Downs

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held…

— Abraham Lincoln

Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged…

— Daniel Hannan

“When we were lying helpless on the floor, he saw us. When we were crying from breathing the toxic air of this…

— Gerrit Dawson

“Imagine for a just a moment, if you will, that the slaves who were brought to America weren’t dark-skinned. Instead, white people…

— Aaron B. Powell

“Hey, check this weirdo out.” Hi was inspecting a bus on the mantel. “This face is ninety percent eyebrow. What do you…

— Kathy Reichs

“If there were some adventurous young people who were so smart they wouldn't like the strict policies of the religious orders, couldn't…

— J.Z. Colby

“We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“We often confuse freedom with the ability to do whatever we want, thus becoming slaves to discipline and illusion.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

— Albert Camus

“Think you're a slave and you'll find a master; think you're a master and slaves will find you”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.

— Sepp Blatter

“To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

— Aristotle

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

— Ntozake Shange

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

— George Mason

“These are the woes of Slaves; They glare from the abyss; They cry, from unknown graves, "We are the Witnesses!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

— Albert Camus

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

— Emily Bronte

Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

— William C. Bryant

“Thankfulness allows us to walk through a world inundated by opportunities and possessions, being slaves to neither.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I cry looking at our reality, through slave eyes. I bet they would say our generation has crossed the line.”

— Delano Johnson

Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.

— Anonymous