Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
Franz Grillparzer

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
Wendell Willkie

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.
Henry Charles Carey

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
Angelina Grimke

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brancusi

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus

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

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Virginia Woolf

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

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
Henry Charles Carey

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
Baltasar Gracian

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

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

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Aristotle

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
William Drummond