Slave Quotes

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A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding… — Bob Dole
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher… — Edwin Markham
Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period… — Robert Cochrane
In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there… — Erik Dammann
The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if… — Marilyn vos Savant
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful,… — Wendell Phillips
I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion. — Anni-Frid Lyngstad
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave. — Alexander Hamilton
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in… — Jesse Jackson
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise,… — John Quincy Adams
If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other,… — Mikhail Bakunin
Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master. — James A. Baldwin
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf… — John Brown
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and… — Lydia M. Child
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the… — Frederick Douglass
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction… — Nikki Giovanni
We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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