Slave Quotes

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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

I am a free man, the slave of Christ.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

We are all slaves of our own actions. Why be angry with anyone else?

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed!

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

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.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I am the dream and the hope of the slave

And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.

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

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.