Slave Quotes - Page 37

• A man in armour is his armour's slave.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Armour

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.695, e-artnow sro

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• The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Men, Numbers, Use

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.292, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Color, Years, Skins

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “A Time for Action”

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• The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

  Albert Camus

  Kind, Masters, Property

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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• I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.

  Steve Dildarian

  Stories, Use, Beats

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• My characters are galley slaves.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

  John F. Kennedy

  Years, President, Citizens

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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• I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed in solving their problems fairly and efficiently at a grassroots level, they retain control over their lives. Insofar as they delegate their problem solving to a higher authority, they lose control over their lives.

  Peace Pilgrim

  People, Democracy, Levels

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.120, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Are you a slave to your self-centered nature or does your divine nature guide your life? Do you kow that every moment of your life you're creating through thought? You create your own inner condition; you're helping create the conditions around you.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Self, Creating, Doe

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.80, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

  Anne Rice

  Naked, Kinky, Trainers

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• Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Mean, Style

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• We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Watches, Care, Morality

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.166, Diderot Publishing

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• On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was... different.

  Britney Spears

  Song, Reflection, Sensual

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• I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's a free person in the whole world that knows how good a cup full of water can taste. Because you have to be a deprived slave, to be kept waiting for your water like we were to really appreciate how good just one swallow can be. When we finally got a drop on our tongues it was like something straight from the hands of the Almighty.

  Walter Mosley

  Appreciation, Believe, Hands

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• The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the body and makes the soul the slave of the body. And on the contrary, one who does not spare the body will not be disturbed in whatever he does by apprehensions born of blind love of life. How fortunate is one who is trained to this from childhood!

  Theophan the Recluse

  Love Life, Evil, Childhood

  "Raising Them Right: A Saint's Advice on Raising Children".

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• On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.

  Lionel Terray

  Beautiful, Men, Climbing

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• It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

  George Carlin

  Country, Philosophy, Slave Owners

  "What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". Live album by George Carlin, 1988.

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• So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: "Civil War." Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? "Say, pardon me?" (shoots gun) "I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry."

  George Carlin

  Country, Sorry, Philosophy

  "What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". Live album by George Carlin, 1988.

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• Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Art, Past, Done

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• You're a Good Little Slave

  Mark Lawrence

  Hate, Littles, I Hate

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• Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Liberty, Birth

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.

  Charles Lamb

  War, Dust, Blood

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• We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

  Karl Barth

  Business, War, Passion

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• Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Democracy, Suggestions, Libertarian

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• White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.

  Huey Newton

  Book, School, Uprising

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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