Slave Quotes

1576 quotes by 962 authors

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. — Lysander Spooner
A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one… — Lysander Spooner
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. — Lysander Spooner
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is… — Lysander Spooner
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute… — Lysander Spooner
The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have… — Lysander Spooner
When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions. — Sylvester Stallone
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to… — Josiah Stamp
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. — Matt Taibbi
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical… — Lewis Thomas
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk… — Hunter S. Thompson
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. — Harriet Tubman
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. — Harriet Tubman
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. — Desmond Tutu
Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave. — Mike Tyson
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a… — Donatella Versace
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. — Sarah Vowell
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. — George Washington
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me… — Walt Whitman

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