Slave Quotes
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IN A MATTER of a little more than a year, I had gone from being the most despised creature in the Third Reich—a hunted Jewish slave girl dodging a transport to Poland—to being one of its most valued citizens, a breeding Aryan housewife. People treated me with concern and respect. If they only knew who I had been! If they only knew whose new life I was breeding!
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A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
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In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."
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When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.
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A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
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Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
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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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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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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.
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To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."
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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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I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.
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Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is 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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How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on, Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up, Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.
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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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Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.
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We are the slaves of slaves
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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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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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Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.
