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Slave Quotes

I am here to do your bidding, Master. I am your slave, and you will reward me, for I shall be faithful.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 8. When Dracula arrives in England, Renfield escapes from his cell and runs naked to Carfax Abbey and cries this this out to Dracula, submitting to him.

“They hain’t no RIGHT to shut him up! SHOVE! – and don’t you lose a minute. Turn him loose! He ain’t no slave; he’s as free as any cretur that walks this earth!”

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 42. Tom sits up in bed and declares this after realizing that Jim has been recaptured. But before this the same Tom had no problem tricking Jim into remaining locked up just to have a bit of fun at the expense of Jim’s freedom.

Let me be clear: policing evolves from slave catching…You cannot reform policing that evolved from slave catching. You have to abolish it.

– Malina Abdullah

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

– Harriet Ann Jacobs

John Brown’s effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

– George Haven Putnam

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

– George Grey

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.

– Henry Charles Carey

’12 Years a Slave’ was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.

– Glynn Turman

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

– John Henrik Clarke

I’m not interested in being commodified. I’m not into being sold. I’m not a slave.

– Jill Scott

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

– James Weldon Johnson

The camera is the slave to the actor.

– John Cassavetes

‘Concierge’ comes from the Latin for ‘slave.’

– Ben Elliot

You’re not a slave to those test audiences.

– Adam McKay

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

– Aristotle

I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.

– Aldis Hodge

I’m not a master of films, I’m rather a slave.

– Ang Lee

Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.

– The Bible

Jesus Christ, Mark 10:42-45.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other’s slave.

– Baltasar Gracian

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

– Frederick Douglass

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

– Diogenes

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

– Frederick Douglass

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

– Francis Scott Key

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

– Frederick Douglass

Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.

– George Tillman, Jr.

I’m nothing more than a sports slave.

– Dennis Rodman

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

– Charles Guggenheim

To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.

– Natalie Clifford Barney

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

– Emile M. Cioran

To this day, I’m a slave to CNBC.

– David Zaslav

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