Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected. — Malcolm X
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their… — William Hazlitt
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old… — Saul Bellow
Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave… — Robert Breault
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It… — Jerome K. Jerome
I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant. — Sai Baba
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor? — Charles Lenox Remond
Death is a slave's freedom. — Nikki Giovanni
I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My… — Abraham Lincoln
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and… — James Russell Lowell
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on. — James Russell Lowell
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and… — George Santayana
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless. — John Dryden
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free. — John Dryden
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his… — Euripides
Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is… — Simone de Beauvoir
We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated,… — Jean Baudrillard
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.… — Jean Baudrillard
Can man be free if woman be a slave? — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been… — Matthew Simpson
I've always been a slave to my heart. — Willie Stargell
I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never… — William H. Seward
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as… — William H. Seward
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this… — William H. Seward
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave. — Cyril Connolly

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