Slave Quotes

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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. — Abraham Lincoln
Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of… — Abraham Lincoln
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it. — Abraham Lincoln
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves… — Abraham Lincoln
If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my… — Unknown Author
If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all right away. Because… — Unknown Author
Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery. — Unknown Author
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine… — John W. Campbell
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever… — Adolf Hitler
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! — Helen Keller
The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. — Winston Churchill
The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . .… — Unknown Author
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need — Ben Jonson
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal… — Seneca the Younger
Then one day along come a Friday and that a unlucky star day and I playin' round de house and marster Williams come up and… — James Green
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to… — Alice Walker
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave. — Aristotle
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte
All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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