Slaves Quotes

See also Slave Quotes

I`ll tell you when I`m going to play the Palace. That`s when Eddie Cantor and George Burns and Groucho Marx and Jack Benny are on the bill. I`m going to buy out the whole house, and sit in the middle of the orchestra and say, `Slaves, entertain the king!`

- Al Jolson

I don`t understand the mandate of being together forever. The idea that you should do that is wrong. It makes us slaves to a societal mandate. You can still love, but it doesn`t mean you have to be tethered to the flesh (His reference on marriage). (9.14.97: Toronto Sun newspaper: Interviewed by Liz Braun)

- Wesley Snipes

When I`m rhyming it`s all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

- Wyclef Jean

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or country with them.

- Richard Allen

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

- Richard Allen

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

- Winston Churchill

Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix... If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.

- Werner Herzog

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

- Huey P. Newton

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

- Wynton Marsalis

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

- Cecil Beaton

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don`t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

- Emily Brontë

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

- Sarah Vowell

Regarding his favorite book, Gustavus Myers` The History of American fortunes: "If you follow the money, like the writer did - the history of the Rockefellers and so on - you find out about real history. In that book you learn that the Civil War was not about freeing the slaves, it was all about the money, etc."

- Uwe Boll

Our happiness usually is conditioned by the kind of home, job, car, clothes, etc., we have, which in a way makes us slaves to matter.

- Gary Wright

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.

- Joe Bob Briggs

The contract system at Hollywood studios like MGM was a very efficient system in that because we were at the studio all the time we could rehearse a lot. But it also really repressed people. There were no union regulations yet, and we were all indentured servants - you can call us slaves if you want - like ballplayers before free agency. We had seven-year contracts, but every six months the studio could decide to fire you if your picture wasn`t a hit. And if you turned down a role, they cut off your salary and simply added the time to your contract.

- Gene Kelly

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

- Ralph Ellison

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

- Andrea Dworkin

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

- David Icke

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

- Douglas Hurd

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.

- Sam Adams

They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.

- Abu Morshed

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

- Adam Rita

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with.

- Adrian Plass

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

- AJ Hanson

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

- Akinobu Okada

Carry his body hence! Kings must have slaves: Kings climb to eminence, Over men`s graves: So this man`s eye is dim; Throw the earth over him!

- Al Hahn

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

- Alex Maskey

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

- Alex Maskey

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

- Alexander Jablokov

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

- Alexander Jodorowsky

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

- Alexander Jodorowsky

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

- Alexander Silbiger

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves` virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

- Alfred Hamilton Barr

The Christian Inhabitants of both Colonies pretty equal, but the Slaves of South Carolina are far more in Number than those in the North.

- Alison Tate

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.

- Allan Keller

In this room we`re all here together, but there`s probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don`t own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.

- Allan Kush

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600`s. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

- Alyssa VanderVeur

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.

- Andre Bauer

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

- Andrea Dziewior

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

- Andrea Dziewior

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

- Andrea Dziewior

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

- Andrea Dziewior

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

- Andrea Dziewior

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture`s image of what is female.

- Andres Cibotti

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

- Andrew Forman

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

- Andrew Norwood

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.

- Andrew Norwood

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.

- Andrew Norwood

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

- Andy Greenberg