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Slave Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble…
- Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
- Be not the slave of your own past.
- Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
- Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.
- 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.
- A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his…
- Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with…
- Let us leave hurry to slaves.
- If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
- Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and…
More Slave Quotes
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!… — Charles Baudelaire
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
- I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller. — Steven Adler
- The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. — Buffalo Bill
- Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce
- It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves… — James Bovard