Quotes About Slave

Fear ye not The wrath of any man, nor hide your word Within your breast: the day of death and doom Awaits alike the freeman and the slave.

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

and after a Natchez slave fabricated an improved cotton gin based upon a description by his owner, who had seen Eli Whitney's invention, many planters

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

Why have you been so blind? Why have you never seen? The slave and master in one skin Is all your history, no more, no less Confess! This is what you've been.

However distorted by the eyes of white masters, the courageous struggles for black freedom during the American Revolution are still evident in the historical sources. Behind every advertisement for a runaway slave lies a saga of heroic proportions:

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

Take responsibility for your finances or get used to taking orders for the rest of your life. You're either a master of money or a slave to it. Your choice.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money.

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Be a master of your dreams, not the slave of your sorrows.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

Shall I tell you what this collision [of free and slave labor] means?… It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become entirely a slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation.

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. …'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.