Slave Quotes

"Who covets more is evermore a slave"

"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

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

James Thomson, Musician

"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

"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

"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

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

Link Wray, Musician

"Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"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

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

Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher

"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"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

"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

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

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

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

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"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

"The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"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

"According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman"

John Norman, Writer

"Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to"

Edwin Booth, Actor

"These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"A free race cannot be born of slave mothers"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"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

"Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

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