Slave Quotes

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased… — Frederick Douglass
Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what… — Ernest Gaines
You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the… — Ann-Marie MacDonald
Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking… — Lauren Kate
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — AndreÃ¯ Makine
Why let them order you about? Why let them tell you to hurry and scurry like ants or maggots? Take your time! Saunter a while!… — Harlan Ellison
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the… — Frederick Douglass
We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion,… — Dalai Lama
The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are… — Dorothy Dunnett
I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake… — Janet Frame
What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and… — Margaret Atwood
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than… — Tobias Wolff
I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be… — Megan Whalen Turner
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice… — George R. R. Martin
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his… — Henry David Thoreau
If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will… — Terry Goodkind
It doesnâ€™t bother you that your canine brethren are being paraded around show rings like slaves?â€ â€œMy canine brethren?â€ I said. â€œI donâ€™thave any canine… — Carrie Vaughn
But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was,… — Homer

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