Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want… — Imelda Marcos
I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man. — Toussaint Louverture
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing… — Jim Butcher
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. — Al-Ghazali
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. — Allan Gurganus
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than… — Christine de Pizan
There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a… — Christine de Pizan
I would rather be a rebel than a slave. — Emmeline Pankhurst
Wayne Brady, I don’t understand why people keep joking that you’re not black. Wayne Brady, you are BLACK. After all, I only remember you for… — Anthony Jeselnik
I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll… — Erykah Badu
I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression,… — Assata Shakur
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave. — H. Rap Brown
This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to… — Jose Mujica
One thing I've learned is this: Never allow yourself to hate a people because of the actions of a few. Hatred and bigotry destroyed my… — Erich Hartmann
I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me, — Janelle Monae
The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the… — Pat Robertson
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the… — Friedrich Engels
One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means. — Anthony Eden
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of… — Howard Zinn
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear — Hunter S. Thompson
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is… — John Brown
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or… — John Brown
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You… — Hilaire Belloc
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. — Natalie Clifford Barney

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