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“The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.”

War States Equal Slave Mutual Resolve Perpetual Perpetual War

Author:William H. Seward

“The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.”

Men Reason Passion He Man Masters Slave

Author:Cyril Connolly

“All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.”

Desire Slavery Slave Socialism Labour Coercion

Book:The Man versus the State: Great Essays

Source: The Man versus the State: Great Essays

“The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.”

Men Humans Mean Self Sacrifice Masters Concepts Salvation Slave Core Assumption Internals Urges Preservation Suppression Self Preservation

Author:Louis Sullivan

“Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.”

Moments Forever Slave Resolve

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.”

Slavery Slave Cowardice Coercion Servitude

Author:Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.”

People Done Wanted Gold Good Things Slave Statues

Book:A Bend in the River

Source: A Bend in the River

“True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?”

“Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.”

People Treats Regard Slave Gossip

Author:Liang Qichao

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

Men Littles Soul Slave Dear Little Man

Author:A. D. Gordon

“Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face by the basest of slaves (Jn. 18:22). He gives you an example of victory, yet do you refuse to undergo this at the hands of a man of like passions as yourself? You are ashamed of becoming an imitator of God (Eph. 5:1), how then will you reign with Him and share in His glory in the kingdom of heaven if you do not endure that man?”

“But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.”

Persons Rich Slave Possession Unhappy Domination No Money Rich Person

Author:George MacDonald

“There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.”

Men Stills Girl Grows Animal Growing Up Economic Land Ethics Relation Property Plant Slave Privilege Obligation Odysseus Slave Girl

Book:The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

“A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.”

World Doe Lasts Nations Money Democracy Masters Abuse Absolutes Slave Prepared Injustice Extremes Socialism Oppression Absolute Power Clemency Injustice And Oppression

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.”

Wells Science Mother Literature Known Slave Chinese Drivers Biographies Well Known Militant Empresses

Author:Emilio G. Segre

“Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'”

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.”

People Said Ends Age Religion Slavery Slave Chosen Gentleman Revelations Prophecy Testament End Times New Testament Genesis Decree Psalms Old And New Let Him Go Till The End

Author:Jefferson Davis

“Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.”

Men Half Slavery Slave Servitude

Book:The Odyssey of Homer: Translated from the Greek

Source: The Odyssey of Homer: Translated from the Greek

“The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.”

Feels Artist Slave Demigods

Author:Soseki Natsume

“If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.”

Ifs Believe Lying White Advice Slave Rounds Dear Come Up Corners Traffic Up To You Mama Cab Pavement

Author:Stevie Smith

“It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.”

Feminism Crime Slave

Author:Ghada al-Samman

“My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.”

Parent Slave Grandmother Great Grandmother

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.”

People Different Law Slave Passing Passings Different Peoples

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.”

World Might Spiritual Born Conditions Creation Slavery Slave Accidents New World

Author:Benjamin E. Mays

“It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!”

Knows May Dies My Own Pride Slave Alternatives Servant Native Sentiments Distraction Composition Plunge Unconquerable Unconquerable Will

Author:Thomas Chatterton

“I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.”

Desire Virtue Slave Graves Sullen

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves. We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.”

Firsts Made Helping Might Running Powerful Millions Technology Car Ten Built Tools Machines Wings Slave Inevitable Knives Airplane Supper

Author:John Brunner

“When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.”

Left Slave

Author:Youssou N'Dour

“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.”

Feels Kind Culture Force Position Masters Female Slave Powerless Obliged Implicit

Book:Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature

Source: Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature

“This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.”

People Lasts America Film Law Black Careers Paper Slave Black Women In-laws Celluloid

Author:Angela Bassett

“How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.”

People Light Form Song Speak Black Originals Slave Versions Transformed Cabins Prisms

Author:Kathleen Battle

“The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.”

Has Beens Said Matter States House Slavery Trade Slave Proceeding Petitions Slave Trade

Author:Caleb Cushing

“Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?”

Men Should Doe House Chance Principles Land Masters Property Slave Possession Goods

Book:Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species

Source: Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species

“I can't play a slave.”

I Can Play Slave

Author:Dorothy Dandridge

“Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.”

People Littles Bigs America Fighting Force Revolution Army Slave Driven North America Chunks Haiti Little Money

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.”

Slave Jew Moses

Author:Larry Flynt

“I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.”

Way Dream Would Be Used Fantasy Growing Up Growing Slave Ice My Way Princess Cream Costumes Ice Cream Recurring Vat Leia Recurring Dreams

Author:Dan Fogler

“Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.”

People Mind Death Slave Plenty

Author:Big Daddy Kane

“I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.”

Men Believe Boys Sky Drug My Friends Slave Alcohol Flying Friendly Believe In Me Hooked Drugs And Alcohol Flying High

Author:Marvin Gaye

“Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.”

Children Evil Slave Dumb Punk Witchcraft Scum

Author:Bob Dylan

“You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.”

Knows Slave Graves Buried Low Self Esteem

Author:Sam Cooke

“When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.”

Forgiveness Forgiving Slave

Book:Dare to Forgive

Source: Dare to Forgive

“No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.”

Eye Economy Quiet Labor Blind Slave Silent Nuclear Chinese Camps Spy Labs Blind Eyes Slave Labor Keeping Silent

Author:Steve Forbes

“... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?”

Ifs Humans Heart States Body Force Community Careers Cases Honest Slave Tyranny Controlled Human Heart Human Body Exceed Taboo

Book:Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

Source: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

“So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.”

Men Want Ideas Facts Given Sex Love You Slave Odd Virginity Kinky

Author:E. L. James

“"Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called Jesus "Lord" are justified, meaning that they are no longer guilty. Also, they have been given the Spirit, which makes them slaves to Christ rather than to sin. But we all are sinners. Perfection awaits eternity.”

“What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?”

Home Slave Garments Festive

Author:Johann Georg Hamann

“If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.”

Ifs Should Heaven Black Slave Reproach

Book:America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island

Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island

“For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.”

Made Fashion Broken Slave

Author:George Kotsiopoulos

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