Slave Quotes

"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves"

James Thomson, Musician

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

Ezra Pound, Poet

"The poor despise labor when performed by slaves"

George Mason, Statesman

"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind"

George Mason, Statesman

"Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"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

"The great artist is a slave to his ideals"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"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

"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, Leader

"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, Leader

"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"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, Revolutionary

"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'"

Link Wray, Musician

"Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"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, Writer

"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, Writer

"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master"

Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher

"I've always been a slave to my heart"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"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, Lawyer

"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, Actor

"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment"

Huey Newton, Activist

"A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"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, Economist

"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested"

Hervey Allen, Author

"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, Writer

"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it"

David Icke, Athlete

"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, Writer

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

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

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