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I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.
We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.
Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come.
I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.
Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
'12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.
The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.
Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed!
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.
Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me.
I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.
I didn't like '12 Years a Slave' because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption.
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.