Slave Quotes

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When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the… — Charles Eisenstein
And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their… — Rosemary Sutcliff
I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other… — George MacDonald Fraser
The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling… — Knut Hamsun
When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid,… — Susan B. Anthony
It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk… — Isak Dinesen
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not… — B R Ambedkar
I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent. — Louisa May Alcott
Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indiansâ€”or… — Khushwant Singh
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity… — Walter Mosley
I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which… — Sarah Kane
i do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves… — Charles Bukowski
You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for… — Sojourner Truth
Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic. — Trudi Canavan
Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. — Orson Scott Card
I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born… — Karen Marie Moning
Reason is the slave of passion. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship — Amiri Baraka
So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global… — Nicholas D. Kristof
We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reasonâ€”or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the… — Rick Yancey

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