Slave Quotes

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Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the… — Frederick Lenz
But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how… — Jennifer Lawrence
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we… — Jay Sekulow
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it… — Benjamin F. Wade
At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day. — Jhonen Vasquez
Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to… — Bruce Cockburn
Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have… — Frederick Lenz
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves… — Frederick Lenz
Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness… — Frederick Lenz
For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between… — Maximus the Confessor
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had… — V.S. Naipaul
True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then… — Ayi Kwei Armah
Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands. — Liang Qichao
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great. — A. D. Gordon
Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face… — Symeon the New Theologian
But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy… — George MacDonald
There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls,… — Aldo Leopold
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to… — Edward Gibbon
Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored… — Gerry Spence

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