Slave Quotes
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This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.
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When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
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I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.
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Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.
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The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
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So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.
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It is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male supremacy is, rather, a pathetic striving for self-respect, self-justification, and self-pardon. After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors - that the master is lesser than the slave.
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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
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I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
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Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.
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Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.
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The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.
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I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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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.
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One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know under what terms - but, for a large section of the old slave plantation. He established himself - sisters and brothers, cousins, etc. on fifty- and sixty-acre plots.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.
