Slave Quotes - Page 24

• God did not create woman from man’s head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.

  Myles Munroe

  Heart, Men, Feet

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage”, p.49, Destiny Image Publishers

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• He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Self, Made, Be A Slave

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2013). “The Old Regime and the Revolution: The controversial bestselling guide to the origins of the French Revolution”, p.213, Harriman House Limited

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• For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Roots, Battle

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.153

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• Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

  Euripides

  Speak, Free Thought, Dare

  Euripides (1814). “The tragedies of Euripides translated [by R. Potter]. by R. Potter”, p.307

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• The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  Greed, Body, Reason Why

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• The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

  William H. Seward

  Class, Southern, States

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• If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

  Og Mandino

  Habit, Let Me, Ifs

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.11, Bantam

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• There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

  John Legend

  Men, Black, Today

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• There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Should Have, Over You, Substance

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• No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

  Euripides

  Men, Public Opinion, Earth

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

  John Dryden

  Men, Office, Proud

  John Dryden (1859). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.177

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• In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.

  Mark Mirabello

  Suggestions, Complaining, Citizens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.

  John C. Maxwell

  Forget, Persons, Ultimate

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last name. When the trumpet blares, there will be no more kings, only slaves. And your family traditions will not be able to keep you safe.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Kings, Father, Names

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• I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.

  David Copperfield

  Saws, Fairy, Distraction

  David Copperfield “The Works of Charles Dickens”

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• Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Influence

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.87

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• Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

  LeCrae

  Sex, Mean, Drug

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• If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Children, Hands, Play

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.116, Verso

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• Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Slavery, Coercion, Cowardice

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• I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

  William H. Seward

  Mean, Texas, Framed

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

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Forever, Moments, Resolve

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• No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only to make the 3rd person his slave, but also a right to dispose of him as a slave to still other persons. Any contract to do this is necessarily a criminal one...To call such a contract a “constitution” does not at all lessen its criminality, or add to its validity.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Criminals, Doe

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• Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Diving Deep, Sea

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• Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, War, Fighting

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• When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

  Mark Steyn

  Party, Abolition Of Slavery, Racism

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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