Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only… — Ayn Rand
It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave. — Wendell Berry
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either… — Aristotle
There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire… — Lisa Kristine
Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into… — Lerone Bennett, Jr.
I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad. — Alaa Al Aswany
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in… — Michelle Alexander
I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Freedom means Freedom for the Group, not Freedom for the Individual. (…) Men must not be slaves to other men, but they must be slaves… — Liang Qichao
You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. — Henry Highland Garnet
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it. — Alice Duer Miller
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor. — Unknown Author
The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by… — Miguel Syjuco
Be your money's master, not its slave. — Publilius Syrus
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of… — Jeffrey Wright
As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don't need society's standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We… — Yasmin Mogahed
I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing… — Lee â€œScratchâ€ Perry
The first matter that the slave will be brought to account for on the Day of Judgment is the prayer. If it is sound, then… — Al-Tabarani
There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided… — Charles Guggenheim
This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is… — Ludwig von Mises
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the… — Benjamin Franklin
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow. — Jose Rizal
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. — Epictetus
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. — Bertrand Russell

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