Slave Quotes

1576 quotes by 962 authors

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put… — Caleb Cushing
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me… — Mikhail Bakunin
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. — George Grey
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess;… — George Grey
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes… — Jon Ronson
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from… — Wendell Willkie
A cat will be your friend, but never your slave. — Theophile Gautier
He who dares not reason, is a slave. — William Drummond
Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered? — Angelina Grimke
You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free. — Joyce Banda
If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is. — Ntozake Shange
Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away. — Edward Ball
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even… — Lysander Spooner
The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law… — Lysander Spooner
God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience. — Rabindranath Tagore
In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains.… — Frederick Douglass
Only when the man of the Sacred Self will look astounded at how awful his Destiny and that of the mankind would have been if… — Sorin Cerin
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy… — George William Curtis
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave — Napoleon Bonaparte
The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries — George Bernard Shaw

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