Quote by Edward P. Jones

“It's better to die free, than live as a slave.”

— Anonymous

“...he was telling me that our [country's] blood-soaked and atrocity-littered past was important but that the future didn't have to be its slave.”

— Wes Moore

“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should…

— Fredrika Bremer

“I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Being a slave is to have nothing but still having something left to lose.”

— Lalita Tedemy

“I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force…

— Anthony Ryan

“I've never wanted a slave. But I have always wanted a bother. I want you to be free, Coal. You can repay me by…

— Christina Daley

“Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.”

— Todd Garlington

“There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,”

— George R.R. Martin

“I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class.”

— Virginia Woolf