Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
Thomas Clarkson

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

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

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
John Stuart Mill

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

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman

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

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.
David Hume

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
Jack LaLanne

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

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.
John Norman

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Alexander Pope

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.
Mika Waltari

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
Mike Tyson

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

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
James Mansfield

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