Slave Quotes - Page 14

Abraham Lincoln got shot and died, Freed the slaves so they put him on the five.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.

For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

I hear the mournful wail of millions!

My favorite quote is Thomas Jefferson`s "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." Well, he was a slave-owner. But these institutions, while they weren't perfect at the time, did allow people to prosper and to continue to struggle and build toward them. That's what you need, is good institutions and I think people will eventually live up to them.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.