Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because… — William H. Seward
I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I'm talking about us, you know? 'Cause I'm a slave to it. I… — Kanye West
I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing… — Kanye West
Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will… — Alexander Hamilton
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left… — Gerry Spence
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There… — Henry David Thoreau
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much… — Swami Vivekananda
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to… — Vincent de Paul
For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and… — Daniel Defoe
But what makes wage slaves? Wages! — Groucho Marx
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space. — Wole Soyinka
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession… — Marquis de Sade
Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. — John Lothrop Motley
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained… — Kenny Smith
While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to… — Abraham Lincoln
The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves — Oscar Wilde
But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions… — August Spies
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of… — Henry David Thoreau
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with — Stephen Vizinczey
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of… — Henry David Thoreau
Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are… — Henry David Thoreau
Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the… — Ned Sublette
Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry... — Ned Sublette

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