Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. — Zora Neale Hurston
Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can… — Robert Crais
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be… — Gore Vidal
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. — Vernor Vinge
To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to… — Robert Graves
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to… — Randolph Bourne
Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the… — Germaine Greer
Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves. — Simon Bolivar
Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'. — Link Wray
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. — Ntozake Shange
The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,… — Lysander Spooner
Free men have arms; slaves do not. — William Blackstone
Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men — Daniel O'Connell
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them. — Spike Lee
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your… — Richard V. Allen
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of… — Seneca the Younger
Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men...They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty. — Robert Owen
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained… — Arrian
If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held… — Esther Vilar
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked… — Leos Carax
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It will… — Haile Selassie
To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived… — R. Scott Bakker
More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery… — Mira Sorvino
No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It… — Mira Sorvino
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves. — David Graeber

Who Wrote These Slaves Quotes

483 authors contributed a total of 696 Slaves Quotes, led by these top contributors: