Slave Quotes

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.

Be not a slave of words.

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.

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.

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

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

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

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

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.