Be A Slave Quotes - Page 6

• I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Blood, Sweat

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• This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

  Euripides

  Mean, Power, Suffering

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit.

  Josiah Stamp

  Money, Liberty, Would Be

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• It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

  Frederic Farrar

  Self, Numbers, Soul

  Frederic William Farrar (1875). “The Life of Christ”, p.118

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• Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.

  Eric Foner

  Country, Attitude, Black And White

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

  Aristotle

  War, Exercise, Men

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• I know I'm a Son of God, an heir of God, and a joint heir of Christ. I'm seated with him in the heavenlies, but by choice; like Paul, Peter and others, I've chosen to be a slave.

  Bill Bright

  Son, Choices, Heirs

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• ...How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. ( A serf paid only 25% of his earnings to his feudal lord. How much income tax do you pay?) Don't kid yourselves, we're slaves. Slaves with weekends off.

  Kenneth W. Royce

  Country, Kids, Weekend

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• It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

  Eric Berne

  Men, Beloved, Slave

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• The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1978). “The old régime and the French Revolution”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fall

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1949) vol. 2, ch. 5

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• If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Children, Mistake, Giving

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• Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

  Khushwant Singh

  People, Slave, Educated

  Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.52, Penguin Books India

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• 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.

  Men, Important, Needs

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• If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all right away. Because you're nothing but a dog. You're not a thing but a dog.

  Fountain Hughes

  Dog, Gun, Ideas

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• If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.

  Robert Falls

  Fighting, Men, Yoke

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• Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Men, Justice

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Tyrants, Screwtape Letters

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• New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and a surly teenager to see what will happen if she doesn’t. And you have to tell her it costs $204,000 to raise it until it turns eighteen, in 2028, where it will be a slave to the Chinese, in a radioactive world with no animals, fish, or plants.

  Bill Maher

  Baby, Teenager, Animal

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.221, Penguin

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• Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

  Ernest Gaines

  Believe, Mean, Mind

  Ernest J. Gaines (2004). “A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel”, p.255, Vintage

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• I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

  Paulo Coelho

  Women, Passion, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 21, 2016

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• The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.

  David O. McKay

  Beautiful, Mother, Strong

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• We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the question must be to what shall we owe our indenture? Will it be to truth or to falsehood, hope or despair, light or darkness? I choose to serve the light, even though that bondage often lies in darkness.

  Rick Yancey

  Lying, Light, Darkness

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• I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

  Kanye West

  Machines, Like You, Slave

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• The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

  Horace

  Slave, Persons, Covetousness

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