Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners. — Mahatma Gandhi
To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free… — Giuseppe Garibaldi
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco… — Henry Louis Gates
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be… — Henry Louis Gates
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices… — Henry Louis Gates
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World… — Henry Louis Gates
The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave… — Henry Louis Gates
You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you… — Henry Louis Gates
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to...… — Henry Louis Gates
You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a… — Henry Louis Gates
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. — Nikki Giovanni
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. — Vincent Van Gogh
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. — Baltasar Gracian
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain… — G I Gurdjieff
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. — James Connolly
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. — Charles Darwin
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United… — Jefferson Davis
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that… — Jefferson Davis
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and… — Junot Diaz
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. — Frederick Douglass
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. — Frederick Douglass
What to the Slave is the 4th of July. — Frederick Douglass
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. — Frederick Douglass
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. — Frederick Douglass

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