Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish. — David Livingstone
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away — Harriet Ann Jacobs
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed! — Marine Le Pen
Gold will be slave or master. — Horace
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. — Zora Neale Hurston
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can… — Robert Crais
The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism… — Vladimir Lenin
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be… — Gore Vidal
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. — Vernor Vinge
To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to… — Robert Graves
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to… — Randolph Bourne
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave — Logan Pearsall Smith
Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the… — Germaine Greer
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have… — Che Guevara
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth… — Yehudi Menuhin
The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts… — Che Guevara
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their… — Che Guevara
Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves. — Simon Bolivar

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