Slaves Quotes

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

Gifts make slaves.

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.