Slave Quotes
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It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days (Slave Quotes)
He who is by nature not his own but another’s man is by nature a slave (Slave Quotes)
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil (Slave Quotes)
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels (Slave Quotes)
Let’s live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave (Slave Quotes)
Fortune’s unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave (Slave Quotes)
My father didn’t know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master (Slave Quotes)
The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws (Slave Quotes)
I’m not interested in being commodified. I’m not into being sold. I’m not a slave (Slave Quotes)
No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else (Slave Quotes)
Every person’s life is theirs by right. An individual’s life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave (Slave Quotes)
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave (Slave Quotes)
Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you’re ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don’t understand that we also dream (Slave Quotes)
And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world (Slave Quotes)
I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction (Slave Quotes)
One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again (Slave Quotes)
Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans (Slave Quotes)
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears (Slave Quotes)
Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her kiss was innocent, vulnerable, a caress so gentle that it made him her slave between one breath and the next (Slave Quotes)
For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday (Slave Quotes)
Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave (Slave Quotes)
... counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen (Slave Quotes)
I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent (Slave Quotes)
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise (Slave Quotes)
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave (Slave Quotes)
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave (Slave Quotes)