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Slave Quotes

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Oppressor Always Slave Arms Almost

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

William Drummond

Fool Will Reason Slave Cannot He

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

Fashion Individuality Slave

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

People Chance Wealth Principal Slave

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Truth Gift Hide Within Slave Poet

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Saint Augustine

King Evil Free Kind Slave He

Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Law Constitution Knowing Opera Slave

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

Candice Millard

Parents People American Feel Slave

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.

Free You Side Anything Slave Things

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

Men Free True Master Slave Her

Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.

Jefferson Davis

Evil Slavery Understand Master Slave

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

Writing Voice American Slave Off

The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.

Home Capitalism Labor Slave Workers

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.

Jean de la Bruyere

Man Master Slave Advancement May

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.

David Steinberg

Job Play First Kid Jewish Slave

I didn't know that '12 Years a Slave' was being filmed at the same time we were making 'The Retrieval.'

Time Know Same Years Slave Being

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

People Never Different People Slave

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

Me Born Country Why Satisfied Slave

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

James Weldon Johnson

Appreciate Old Slave Songs Negroes

'12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.

Moving Powerful Years Slave Get Did

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Franz Grillparzer

Mother Home Son Slave Your Least

Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Value Free Master Conviction Slave

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

William Drummond

Fool Will Reason Slave Cannot Who

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.

Margaret Fuller

Walk Self Better Never Always Slave

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