Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession… — Marquis de Sade
Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must. — Sojourner Truth
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. — John Lothrop Motley
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained… — Kenny Smith
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not… — Kenny Smith
You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead… — Neil Gaiman
While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to… — Abraham Lincoln
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no… — Abraham Lincoln
The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves — Oscar Wilde
But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions… — August Spies
The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from… — Gueorgui Pinkhassov
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of… — Henry David Thoreau
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with — Stephen Vizinczey
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the… — Henry David Thoreau
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of… — Henry David Thoreau
Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are… — Henry David Thoreau
What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is… — Henry David Thoreau
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not… — Lucy Stone
Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the… — Ned Sublette
Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry... — Ned Sublette
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade… — Ned Sublette

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