Slave Quotes

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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. — Diogenes
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men. — Fernando Pessoa
Our race is the Master Race. we are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from… — Menachem Begin
The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves. — Menachem Begin
Abraham Lincoln truly inspired me. It wasn't just the freeing of the slaves, he kept the Union together. Some people even forget that today. What… — George H. W. Bush
A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists. — Max Stirner
Who covets more is evermore a slave. — Robert Herrick
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more… — Seneca the Younger
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were… — Mark Twain
I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master… — Michael Jackson
Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by… — Bruce Cockburn
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is… — Zora Neale Hurston
I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy. — Isaac Newton
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in… — Charles Lamb
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in… — Alexander Pope
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house. — John Stuart Mill
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of… — H. L. Mencken
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it… — Sean O'Casey
I'd rather be called a N*gger than a Slave. — Roger Ebert
The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the… — Franklin P. Adams

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