Slave Quotes - page 22

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off. (John Henrik Clarke)
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous. View quote
John Sergeant Wise
How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide. View quote
Kathleen Battle
I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave. View quote
Lee Daniels
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade. View quote
Andrew Mwenda
I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations. View quote
David Steinberg
Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away. View quote
Edward Ball
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. View quote
George Grey
The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it. View quote
James Mansfield
If you can not master your language you must be it's slave. View quote
Jenny Weber
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent. (John Brough)
God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart. View quote
Myles Munroe
I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar. View quote
Robbie Robertson
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. View quote
Ross Kemp
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps. View quote
Steve Forbes
I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller. View quote
Steven Adler
I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality. View quote
Sandra Oh
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. View quote
William Drummond
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions. View quote
Eliud Kipchoge
The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The courtiers tried every trick to lure or force him into making complaints against Tiberius; always, however, without success. He not only failed to show any interest in the murder of his relatives, but affected an amazing indifference to his own ill-treatment, behaving so obsequiously to his adoptive grandfather and to the entire household, that someone said of him, very neatly: "Never was there a better slave, or a worse master!" (Suetonius)
Whose interest was it to protect the weak? It was the weak themselves, the slave and the woman. And was not this verdict in conformity with historical fact? Who were the first Christians? Slaves and women. Who next swore that it was incumbent on men to love their neighbour as themselves, to break their bread with the hungry, to give them their cloak and their possessions? They who had nor bread nor cloaks, nor possessions, they who might win by the bargain. View quote
Oscar Levy
Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot? Can anybody fall to make the inference what the practical result will be? View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. View quote
Germaine Greer
As a Rioplatense person of European decent, I feel strongly about the urgency of retelling the stories of our nation's histories, the Argentinian and Uruguayan national stories and cultural stories, in ways that fully recognize the presence of black people. Which is a huge part of the greater story of the Americas as well. You cannot tell the story of the Americas without the story of black people and the transatlantic slave trade - that mass atrocity. Alongside, of course, the genocide of indigenous people. And also the cultural richness and artistic production and stories of resilience and power that, too, come out of those harsh realities that are at the origin of the Americas. View quote
Carolina de Robertis