Conditions Quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“While every aristocratic morality springs from a triumphant affirmation of its own demands, the slave morality says "no" from the very outset to what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Frederick Douglass

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me,…

— Frederick Law Olmsted

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a…

— Samuel Morse

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

— Octavia Butler

Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's…

— W. H. Auden

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

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Diogenes