Slave Quotes

• 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.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Desire
  • Care
  • Shameful

• When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Slave
  • Ornaments
  • Fetters

• To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

  

  Diogenes
  • Slave
  • Market
  • Orders

• Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Slave
  • God's Grace
  • Soul-force

• Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Slave
  • Threaten

• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slave
  • Union
  • Freeing

• Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.

  

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
  • People
  • Age
  • Enough

• You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Black
  • Relation
  • Upset

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

  

  Kevin Bales
  • Identity
  • Slavery
  • Slave

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

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • People
  • Men
  • Slave

• Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Free

• Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Slave
  • African

• All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Slave
  • Americans
  • Master

• 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.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Soul
  • Fear
  • Change

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

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • People
  • Nature
  • Slave

• The number of slave voyages included in the database has now risen to thirty-five thousand, accounting for the forced migration of more than twelve million Africans between 1514 and 1866, a million more than were estimated at the time of the conference in 1998.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Conference
  • Migration
  • Database

• Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Slave
  • Ills
  • Deliverers

• A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Slave
  • Consult

• No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Slave
  • Chains

• The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

  

  George Washington
  • Duty
  • Hatred
  • Affection

• 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.

  

  David Batstone
  • Hope
  • Slave
  • Arrest

• You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Family
  • Tree
  • Able

• The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Enemy
  • Slave
  • Placer

• Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Try
  • Slave

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