I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
The Slave master named Mahmel Was a nasty kind of thug, so Stiggy dropped a rock on him and squashed him like a bug.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
[Poem on Narrator's computer] Narrator: Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
The Collector: Carina, get away from that stone! CARINA! Carina: I will no longer be your slave! [grabs the stone and gets obliterated]
Moses: It would take more than a man to lead the slaves from bondage. It would take a god.
Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
