Slave Quotes

1576 quotes by 962 authors

The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the… — Pat Robertson
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the… — Friedrich Engels
One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means. — Anthony Eden
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of… — Howard Zinn
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear — Hunter S. Thompson
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is… — John Brown
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or… — John Brown
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You… — Hilaire Belloc
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. — Natalie Clifford Barney
In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves. — Alan Keyes
I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education. — Arnold Schoenberg
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror,… — Unknown Author
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — George Bernard Shaw
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the… — William Lloyd Garrison
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my… — Lucy Stone
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent,… — Samuel Morse
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. — Nikola Tesla
Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them… — Francis Chan
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs — Kendrick Lamar

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