Dreams Quote by Frederick Douglass

“to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and,…

— Frederick Douglass

“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral…

— Carl Sagan

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass

Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every…

— Roger B. Taney

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

— Diogenes

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

— Octavia Butler

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

— Euripides

“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control would be…

— Toni Morrison

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

— Wayne Dyer

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all…

— Bertrand Russell