Slave Quotes

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
Charles Rangel

Time, Positive, Forward

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

War, Freedom, Crisis

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.
Frank Miller

Time, Women, Democracy

Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Robert Herrick

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

Morning, Mother, Children

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Diogenes of Sinope

Art, Rule, Master

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

Different, Means, Sure

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Tom Wolfe

Life, Beauty, Artist

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
Caleb Cushing

Down, Cannot, Put

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
Caleb Cushing

Said, Matter, House

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
Jhonen Vasquez

Idea, Stories, Johnny

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
Steve Forbes

Silent, Labor, Eye

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
Saadi

God, Seldom, Stomach

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

Men, Woman, Become

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
Gerrit Smith

Marriage, God, Respect

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

Old, Themselves, Songs

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
L. Neil Smith

Single, Nobody, Freed

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.
Jennifer Lawrence

Great, Character, Free

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.
Paul Robeson

Time, Mother, Father

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
Alphonsus Liguori

Great, Him, Before

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.
Helen Hunt Jackson

Father, Him, Made

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

Different, Before, Laws

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

Home, Mother, Son

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Happy, Away, Born

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Time, Mother, Learned

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

Life, Sad, Girl

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Fear, Girl, Atmosphere

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
Walter Ulbricht

Time, Struggle, Working

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

Find, Whole, Boss

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.
George Grey

Chance, Wealth, Number

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