Slave Quotes

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

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

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

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

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

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

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.