Slave Quotes

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Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. — Homer
The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod. — Soseki Natsume
If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner,… — Stevie Smith
It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds. — Ghada al-Samman
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. — Constance Baker Motley
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. — Franz Grillparzer
The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to… — Benjamin E. Mays
It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is… — Thomas Chatterton
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. — Hans Morgenthau
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position,… — Susan Griffin
This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and… — Angela Bassett
How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light… — Kathleen Battle
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have… — Caleb Cushing
Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour… — Thomas Clarkson
I can't play a slave. — Dorothy Dandridge
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French… — Edwidge Danticat
I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be… — Dan Fogler
Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death. — Big Daddy Kane
I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky. — Marvin Gaye

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