Slave Quotes

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. — James Connolly
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. — Charles Darwin
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United… — Jefferson Davis
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that… — Jefferson Davis
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and… — Junot Diaz
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. — Frederick Douglass
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. — Frederick Douglass
What to the Slave is the 4th of July. — Frederick Douglass
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. — Frederick Douglass
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. — Frederick Douglass
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward,… — Theodore Dreiser
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and… — Andrea Dworkin
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. — Wayne Dyer
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. — Havelock Ellis
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. — Ralph Ellison
A man in debt is so far a slave. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. — Epictetus
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. — Euripides
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions. — Jerry Falwell

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