Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts. — Euripides
You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past. — Rihanna
The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy… — Andrew Jackson
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who… — H. L. Mencken
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create… — Josiah Stamp
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. — Donald James
Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling.… — Thomas Sowell
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they… — Joseph Sobran
I will form good habits and become their slaves. — Og Mandino
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I… — Abraham Lincoln
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.… — Abraham Lincoln
Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about… — Abraham Lincoln
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written… — Abraham Lincoln
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. — George Mason
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves. — James Madison
In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and… — James Madison
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if… — Patrick Henry
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble… — George Washington
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use… — George Washington
Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon… — Mark Twain
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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