Slave Quotes - page 2

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. (Seneca)
You have seen how a man was made a slave you shall see how a slave was made a man. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave. View quote
Octavia Butler
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. View quote
William Cowper
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. View quote
David Hume
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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave. View quote
William Wordsworth
On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead. View quote
Helen Hunt Jackson
A man in debt is so far a slave. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not the slave of your own past ... plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
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. View quote
Walt Whitman
This is a world of compensation and 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, can not long retain it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I am a galley slave to pen and ink. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave. View quote
Howard Gardner
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions. (Pythagoras)
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America. View quote
Bill Clinton
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice. View quote
Samuel Smiles
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Master and slave wear the yoke together. Anarchy is the only true freedom. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson