Slave Quotes

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

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?

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

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.

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

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?

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.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your 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.

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.

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.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Be not a slave of words.

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.