Slave Quotes

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The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the… — Ulysses S. Grant
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and… — Chaka Khan
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. — Erich Fromm
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave,… — Margaret Fuller
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners. — Mahatma Gandhi
To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free… — Giuseppe Garibaldi
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco… — Henry Louis Gates
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be… — Henry Louis Gates
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices… — Henry Louis Gates
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World… — Henry Louis Gates
The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave… — Henry Louis Gates
You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you… — Henry Louis Gates
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to...… — Henry Louis Gates
You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a… — Henry Louis Gates
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. — Nikki Giovanni
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. — Vincent Van Gogh
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. — Baltasar Gracian
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain… — G I Gurdjieff

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