Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted. — Ned Sublette
I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave. — Mary Renault
Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth… — Jennifer Chiaverini
We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates… — J. Reuben Clark
If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right. — Matt Chandler
Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you. — Ludwig Borne
I've been a prima-donna. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled,… — Mike Tyson
Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books… — Saint Augustine
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave. — Horace
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. — Herbert Spencer
Let me never become a slave to crowds. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days. — Khalil Gibran
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief. — Petrarch
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the… — William C. Bryant
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave. — Cato the Elder
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it. — Aristotle
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words... — Thomas Carlyle
[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul.... [I]n this trinity of soul, mind,… — Edward Everett Hale
The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man. — Mahatma Gandhi
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims… — George Jean Nathan
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do… — Erich Fromm
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves. — William Hazlitt

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