Slaves Quotes

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
Stephen Ambrose

Equal, Owned, Created

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
Mary Astell

Women, Men, Free

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
Matthew Simpson

Free, Whole, Nation

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
Sarah Vowell

Nice, Ski, Freed

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
Wynton Marsalis

Time, Men, Mother

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.
Michael Johnson

Life, Through, Impossible

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
Albert Bushnell Hart

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
Wyclef Jean

Minds, Head, Sing

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
Gerrit Smith

Government, Property, Doctrine

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?
Jo Nesbo

Crazy, Person, Mean

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
Ben Jonson

Ambition, Makes, Trusty

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
Constance Baker Motley

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Women, Father, Often

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
Youssou N'Dour

Music, Left, Africa

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.
Angela Bassett

Woman, Career, Black

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
James Bovard

Change, Politics, Positive

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
Kim Stanley Robinson

Police, Protection

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
Alfred Marshall

Nature, Time, Themselves

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
William H. Seward

Nature, Men, Law

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
William H. Seward

Nature, Law, Answer

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
Jupiter Hammon

Black, Find, Heaven

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Women, Living, While

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
John Lothrop Motley

Two, While, Says

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.
Link Wray

Music, Pain, Soul

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
Douglas Hurd

History, Give, Become

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.
John Perkins

Successful, Country, Two

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.
Robert Crais

Great, Past, Stuff

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

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
David Garrick

Worst, Corrupted

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.
Robert Toombs

Less, System, Four

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