Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the… — Barbara Kruger
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved. — Kate Beckinsale
White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played any… — Eddie Murphy
There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived… — Harry Belafonte
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your… — David Foster
At the Oscars, if you didnt vote for 12 Years a Slave' you were a racist. — Gary Oldman
I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on.… — George Will
Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and… — Werner Herzog
I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save… — Jamie Foxx
Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks. — Chris Rock
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at… — Olaudah Equiano
No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not… — Diana Peterfreund
It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears peculiar that she… — Hilton Hotema
I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again. — Leif Garrett
I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer… — Ariel Sharon
It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath.… — Nadine Gordimer
Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt… — Louise Bourgeois
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. — Saadi
I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but… — Larry Holmes
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. — Seneca the Younger
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is...… — Sheryl WuDunn
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak. — James Russell Lowell
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. — Arthur Rimbaud
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. — James Weldon Johnson

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