Slave Quotes
1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors
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I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is…
— Jimmy Carter
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to…
— Julia Child
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I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act…
— Amy Chua
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We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
— Winston Churchill
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th…
— John Henrik Clarke
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When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
— Stephen Ambrose
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
— Stephen Ambrose
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
— Susan B. Anthony
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I`m not a slave to a god that doesn`t exist.
— Marilyn Manson
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A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding…
— Bob Dole
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By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher…
— Edwin Markham
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Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period…
— Robert Cochrane
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there…
— Unknown Author
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The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this…
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if…
— Marilyn vos Savant
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful,…
— Wendell Phillips
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I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
— Anni-Frid Lyngstad
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No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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