Slave Quotes

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

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 make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.

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

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.