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Slave Quotes

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

Kate Beckinsale

Think More Slave Who Enslaved Than

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

Democracy Master Slave Would Idea

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

Slave Not Interested Being Interested

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

People Remember Places Slave West

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.

John Sergeant Wise

Man Lost Difference Slave Practical

Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.

Solomon Northup

Value Horse Matter Slave Well Close

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Today Day Slavery More Height Slave

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Men Woman Man Become Slave Just One

I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Book Think Know Anything Slave Text

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

Work Yourself Think You Human Slave

I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.

Shannon Elizabeth

Good Wrong Him Slave Call Something

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

Lysander Spooner

Character Government Oligarchy Slave

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Quality Boss Find Employee Slave

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man Thought End Slave Thinker Call

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

Frederick Douglass

I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.

Nostalgia Want Slave

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh

Imagination Become Inspiration Slave

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

Women Men World Airplane Ship Slave

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

King Ancestors Slave Who His Had

As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.

Company Him Always Slave Most He

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Self Master Own Slave

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

Problems You First Slave Star Role

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

Abraham Lincoln

Alone Struggle Slavery Leaving Slave

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