Slave Quotes

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I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral… — Lucretia Mott
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of… — Paul Robeson
It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will… — Ousmane Sembene
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain… — Rabindranath Tagore
We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave. — Emiliano Zapata
What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory. — William Shakespeare
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave. — Robert Kiyosaki
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be… — Aristotle
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and… — Jonas Salk
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself… — Henry David Thoreau
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future… — Oscar Wilde
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar… — Edward Hoagland
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the… — Alexander the Great
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up… — Abraham Lincoln
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you,… — Abraham Lincoln
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that… — Abraham Lincoln
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is… — Abraham Lincoln

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