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Slave Quotes

I don’t want to be a slave to nostalgia.

– Cullen Bunn

I can’t play a slave.

– Dorothy Dandridge

Being a part of ’12 Years a Slave’ has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.

– Lupita Nyong’o

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

– L. Neil Smith

I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha.

– Joseph Jacobs

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.

– John Brough

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn’t think they’re enslaved.

– Kate Beckinsale

I come from a family of servants. My father’s father was a servant, and my father’s father’s father was a slave.

– Lee Daniels

I’m not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

– Leif Garrett

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

– James Connolly

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

– Lysander Spooner

It’s sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

– Jhonen Vasquez

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

– Saadi

Who covets more, is evermore a slave.

– Robert Herrick

The Covetous Still Captives

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

– Robert Anton Wilson

Be not a slave of words.

– Thomas Carlyle

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

– William H. Seward

The male corporate model is built on a man’s greater willingness to be a slave of sorts – especially once he has to provide for children.

– Warren Farrell

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

– William Drummond

I’m not gonna be a slave. I’m a rock n’ roller.

– Steven Adler

I’ve always been a slave to my heart.

– Willie Stargell

The violinist must possess the poet’s gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

– Yehudi Menuhin

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

– Wayne Dyer

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

– Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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