Slave Quotes

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Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. — William Cowper
I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for… — William Cowper
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. — Alexander Pope
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope
I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. — Oliver Goldsmith
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave. — Fernando Pessoa
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave. — Robert Herrick
Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they… — Doris Lessing
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves. — Margaret Mead
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to… — Charles Churchill
Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my… — Claude Monet
I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence… — Tony Blair
The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. — Albert Pinkham Ryder
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air. — Lisa Alther
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like… — Sathya Sai Baba
The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself… — Che Guevara
Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when… — George Farquhar
Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey, Away from the world that slaves… — Madison Cawein
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt,… — Mervyn Peake
No more slave States and no more slave territory. — Salmon P. Chase

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