Slave Quotations | Page 2

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.

I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

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.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

I wash Your Feet, and constantly serve You. O Divine Lord, I worship and adore You; I bow down before You. I am the slave of Your slaves; I chant Your Name. I offer this prayer to my Lord and Master.

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

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.

Right now currency manipulation is not seen as an export subsidy, and it should be just as much as subsidy slave labor or anything else.

If we're not paying people enough to feed themselves, clothe themselves, we're not even paying them slave wages. I don't think a living wage solves all your problems in poverty. I think this is just a start.

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

Secession by the South was a reaction against Lincoln's high-tax policy. In 1861 the slave issue was not critical.

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.

If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

He is the slave of the Lord's slaves.

For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.

Fortune, that with malicious joy, Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleas'd to bless

Be a governess! Better be a slave at once!

When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.

Human must not be enslaved by material. To be a man, you have to be the master of yourself, not the slave of things.

He was the chief architect of the Fugitive Slave Act -- though he abhorred slavery. Runaway slaves could be returned to their masters no matter where they were, no matter how long they had been living free. It was violently detested. There were riots.

Other speakers claimed Georgia's new photo-ID law would suppress poor and elderly minority voters who might lack such a document. When the bill passed the Georgia House in March, black legislators sang slave songs and one even slammed a prisoner's shackles on the desk of the sponsor,

I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange.

To God be the praise. I am only the slave of God.

When you're doing a network show in the States, you're just a slave to the ratings. There's so much money invested that there's this pervasive atmosphere of fear and anxiety. Every morning after an episode of your show airs, everyone is fixated on the numbers to try and determine how the show did.

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

What we know today is that children all over America have the right to learn-whether their ancestors came to America on slave ships or the Mayflower.

i do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear...

There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

There are very few slave narratives because it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write. This man remembered being captured in Africa when he was 16. He remembers vividly the voyage to the Caribbean Islands, being sold to a ship's captain.

I'm a slave for you. Dancing in the dark.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

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

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

Women are slaves to their beauty.

seeming's enough for slaves of space and time ours is the now and here of freedom . Come

The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

We are all slaves to the shining metal.

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people .

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

There has been a reevaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied with the leftovers at the back door rather than demand a full serving at the family dinner table

My favorite quote is Thomas Jefferson`s "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." Well, he was a slave-owner. But these institutions, while they weren't perfect at the time, did allow people to prosper and to continue to struggle and build toward them. That's what you need, is good institutions and I think people will eventually live up to them.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.

. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.

Irony is the glory of slaves.

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days

Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of.

A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

Let me never become a slave to crowds.

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Money is a great slave but a horrible master.

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Throughout my life, I have tried to share my belief that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. My life is not about deprivation; I don't diet or slave away in a gym. What I do is eat clean, nutritious, real food. I enjoy delicious meals with healthy fats, I eat until I am full and satisfied, and I remain thin.

Throughout my life, I have tried to share my philosophy that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. I don't diet or slave away in a gym - what I do is make excellent food choices.

Slaves. though we be enrolled Minds are never to be sold.

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

Between then and now, the amount of material has grown in huge measure. This is a huge amount of documentation, none of which has been seriously researched before. What's really being talked about is the massive potential addition to what we know and what we are able to learn, not just the way individuals were treated, but about the concentration camp system, how forced and slave labor worked, about the experiences of people who survived.

You can't blame the immigrant. All he's looking to do is improve life for his family, so he will take these jobs that Americans can't or won't do for slave wages.

The Saint has shown me the Path of God; slave Nanak has implanted devotional worship and the Praise of the Lord.

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, / Though I must slave for livelihood - / Think you that I would change with him? / You bet I would!

The way that trafficking is stopped is just ordinary people become aware of it and they see something awry and then call in a tip, ... And until people can fathom that their next-door neighbor might have a slave in their house, they're not going to see the signs and think to call the police.

A free race cannot be born to slave mothers. A woman cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters.

You must make the mind the servant of God, not the slave of the senses.

I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet under your door with a curse on it. They had amazing writing and drawings on them, and they survive to this day since lead is so stable.

No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. ... Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. ... What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

The Chinese understand that slave labour, which they thrive on, is not productive or useful to the economy if it is only extracted by torture.