Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the… — Frederick Lenz
The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems… — Charles Hummel
Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled… — Ron Paul
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer… — Friedrich Nietzsche
seeming's enough for slaves of space and time ours is the now and here of freedom . Come — E E Cummings
It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the… — C.S. Lewis
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was… — John Dryden
Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them. — Algernon Sidney
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us… — Emma Goldman
for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to… — Henry Fielding
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of… — Louisa May Alcott
As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must… — Ulysses S. Grant
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and… — Chaka Khan
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. — Erich Fromm
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
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
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 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
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. — Charles Darwin
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
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. — 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
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and… — Andrea Dworkin
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. — Havelock Ellis

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