Slave Quotes
1576 quotes by 988 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.
— Emiliano Zapata
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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
— William Shakespeare
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If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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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
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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
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Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
— Bobby Charlton
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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