Slave Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

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.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.