Slave Quotes

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Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,… — Thomas Jefferson
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any… — George Washington
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. — Horace
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of… — Ida B. Wells
We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no… — Chinua Achebe
What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave? — Abraham Maslow
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify… — Herbert Marcuse
Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more… — Charles Babbage
I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in todayâ€™s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My… — Mitt Romney
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves. — Margaret Fuller
Be not the slave of your own past. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave. — G.A. Henty
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with… — Aravind Adiga
An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor. — Malcolm X
Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen… — Malcolm X
Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master. — Jim Rohn
Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a… — Matthew Woodring Stover
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men.… — Wynton Marsalis
One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping. — Emile M. Cioran

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