Ned Sublette Quotes

That now-archaic word “likely,” ubiquitous in slave sale advertisements, had a cluster of converging meanings: vigorous, strong, capable, good-looking, attractive, promising—in other words, likely to reproduce.

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

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Star
  • Problems
  • Slave

• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Slave

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

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Slave
  • Again
  • Anymore

• No more slave States and no more slave territory.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Slavery
  • Slave
  • States

• Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • People
  • Nature
  • Slave

• Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • God
  • Men
  • Nature

• It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

  

  Kevin Bales
  • Identity
  • Slavery
  • Slave

• A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Believe
  • Small
  • Dog

• Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Slave

• It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Trust
  • Humanity
  • Faces

• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Freedom
  • Slave
  • Preserve

• No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

  

  William Cowper
  • Freedom
  • Shows
  • Slave

• This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

  

  Euripides
  • Violence
  • Slave
  • Suffer

• To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

  

  Euripides
  • Man
  • Heaven
  • Slave

• Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Interest
  • Slave
  • Bourgeoisie

• The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Rich
  • Glory
  • Advertisements

• Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

  

  Epictetus
  • Free
  • Slave
  • Avoid

• Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Time
  • Slave

• I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Respect
  • Slave
  • Creator

• So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Book
  • Care
  • Breathe

• The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.

  

  Steve Nash
  • Game
  • Improve
  • Adding

• If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Job
  • Nice

• That now-archaic word “likely,” ubiquitous in slave sale advertisements, had a cluster of converging meanings: vigorous, strong, capable, good-looking, attractive, promising—in other words, likely to reproduce.

  

  Ned Sublette
  • Slave
  • Advertisements
  • Likely