Slave Quotes

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.
Jay Alan Sekulow

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.
John Sergeant Wise

Lost, Between, Difference

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
David Steinberg

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.
Jhonen Vasquez

Book, Free, Moment

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.
Sandra Oh

Fashion, Exercising

I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.
Shannon Elizabeth

Good, Him, Wrong

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.
Jon Ronson

End, Book, Takes

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
Natalie Clifford Barney

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
Leif Garrett

I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.
William H. Seward

Mean, Free, Whether

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.
William H. Seward

Free, Others, Seems

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
William H. Seward

War, Society, State

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
William H. Seward

Free, State, Slavery

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
Lucy Larcom

Music, Thoughts, Enough

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
Johann Georg Hamann

Good, Home, Freedom

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.
Steven Adler

Rock, Gonna, Roller

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif

Passion, Few, Less

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

Place, Ourselves, Side

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

Feeling, Before, Older

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
Dalton Trumbo

Free, Anybody, Army

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.
Benjamin F. Wade

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.
Jenny Weber

Language, Master

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
Denis Kearney

Greatest, Working, Despair

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.
Denis Kearney

Men, Live, Country

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.
George Grey

Before, Another, Here

You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.
Joyce Banda

Free, Tree, Sit

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
Arthur Middleton

Life, God, Freedom

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
Barry Unsworth

Live, Feeling, Human

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
Susan Griffin

Women, Live, Culture

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Fashion, Against, Himself

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