Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in… — Jesse Jackson
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise,… — John Quincy Adams
If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other,… — Mikhail Bakunin
Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master. — James A. Baldwin
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf… — John Brown
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and… — Lydia M. Child
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the… — Frederick Douglass
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction… — Nikki Giovanni
We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral… — Lucretia Mott
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of… — Paul Robeson
It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will… — Ousmane Sembene
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain… — Rabindranath Tagore
We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave. — Emiliano Zapata
What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory. — William Shakespeare
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave. — Robert Kiyosaki
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be… — Aristotle
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and… — Jonas Salk
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself… — Henry David Thoreau
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future… — Oscar Wilde
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar… — Edward Hoagland
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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