Slave Quotes: Voices from the Past (Page 2)

"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, Writer

"It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Free men have arms; slaves do not"

William Blackstone, Judge

"To be one's own master is to be the slave of self"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

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

Steven Adler, Musician

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves"

George Washington, President

"He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God"

Saadi, Poet

"Fear is the passion of slaves"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"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, Philosopher

"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, Poet

"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

"Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"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, Poet

"Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

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

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"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, Actress

"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"He who dares not (reason), is a slave"

William Drummond

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

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"Who covets more is evermore a slave"

Robert Herrick, Poet

"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, Politician

"He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave"

William Drummond

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

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

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