Slave Quotes

1576 quotes by 962 authors

It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath.… — Nadine Gordimer
Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt… — Louise Bourgeois
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. — Saadi
I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but… — Larry Holmes
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. — Seneca the Younger
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is...… — Sheryl WuDunn
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak. — James Russell Lowell
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. — Arthur Rimbaud
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. — James Weldon Johnson
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear… — Bernard of Clairvaux
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if… — Edward Abbey
The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both. — Edward Abbey
King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on… — Edward Abbey
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague… — George Orwell
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of… — Mercy Otis Warren
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both… — Samuel Adams
I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and… — Samuel Adams
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects… — Samuel Adams
Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an… — Samuel Adams

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