Slave Quotes

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
Henry Louis Gates

Truth, Business, Sad

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

Self, Often, Walk

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
Nikki Giovanni

Two, Master, Likeable

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.
Peter Singer

Saying, Ignore, Same

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.
Julia Child

Learn, Season, Cook

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
Benjamin Carson

Sports, Important, Brain

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Become, Once, Secret

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur Rimbaud

Parents, Misfortune, Baptism

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.
Spike Lee

Education, Art, Children

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
Buffalo Bill

Men, Free, State

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.
Sylvester Stallone

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

Democracy, Everyone, Means

The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.
Michael Moore

Trying, Keep, Since

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
Theophile Gautier

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Government, Poor, Else

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.
Dennis Rodman

Sports, Nothing

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.
Erykah Badu

Time, Art, Down

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
Dan Savage

War, Bible, Civil

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

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Theophile Gautier

Friend, Affection, Worthy

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
Mikhail Bakunin

Success, Faith, Stupid

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Susan B. Anthony

Trust, Help, Woman

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Away, Year, Until

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
Margaret Sanger

Cannot, Free, Mothers

They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.
Wilbur Smith

Mother, Water, Drink

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
Wilbur Smith

Great, Food, School

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
H. Rap Brown

Free, Between, Either

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
Herbert Read

Happiness, Happy, May

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

History, Country, Free

I've always been a slave to my heart.
Willie Stargell

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