Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had… — V.S. Naipaul
Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands. — Liang Qichao
Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face… — Symeon the New Theologian
But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy… — George MacDonald
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to… — Edward Gibbon
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. — Constance Baker Motley
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position,… — Susan Griffin
This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and… — Angela Bassett
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French… — Edwidge Danticat
Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death. — Big Daddy Kane
I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky. — Marvin Gaye
Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves. — Bob Dylan
"Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called Jesus "Lord" are… — Edward T Welch
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves. — Jupiter Hammon
For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken. — George Kotsiopoulos
And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst… — Unknown Author
A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health,… — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation… — Donald Watson
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it… — Lysander Spooner
Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need. — James Hunter
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old… — Wendell Berry
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability… — Pope John Paul II
Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically… — Ivan Illich

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