Slave Quotes - page 4

It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you. (Orson Scott Card)
I'm not their slave," the man mutters. "I am," I say. "That's why I killed Cato ... and he killed Thresh ... and he killed Clove ... and she tried to kill me. It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the Capitol. But I'm tired of being a piece in their Games. View quote
Suzanne Collins
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself. View quote
Erica Jong
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is wisdom to the mighty, he is succour to the brave, So the world shall be his footstool, and the soul of Time his slave, Our God is marching on. View quote
Julia Ward Howe
The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians. View quote
Sarah Grimké
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people. View quote
Walter Ulbricht
I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery. View quote
P. D. James
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear. View quote
Paul Robeson
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave. (Imelda Marcos)
The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now. View quote
Carol Moseley Braun
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. View quote
Joseph Campbell
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. View quote
Aravind Adiga
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. View quote
William H. Seward
Sacrifice and neon lights slave ships don't wait. Love many, trust few, and don't be late. View quote
Tom Morello
I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. View quote
William Cowper
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction. View quote
Georg Brandes
If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it. View quote
Bob Dole
The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality! View quote
Mordechai Anielewicz
Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave of unseen powers, did not matter because the communicant was only a woman, in herself an undetermined cipher – a nothing. (Laura Riding)
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. View quote
Albert Camus
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave? View quote
Joe Hill
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general. View quote
Friedrich Engels
I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people. View quote
Peter Jennings