Slave Quotes

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.