Quotes of: Slave Keyword

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Saint Augustine

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

Emile M. Cioran

Tibeats: I thought I told yah ta commence ta puttin' on clapboards this morn'.

12 Years a Slave

You are still a slave if only your limbs are free.

German

The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.

Turkish

I am the slave of the Master of Prophets And my fealty to him has no beginning. I am a slave of his slave, and of his slave’s slave, And so forth endlessly, For I do not cease to approach the door Of his good pleasure among the beginners. I proclai...

Yusuf al-Nabhani

Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the Capitol. The voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom and equality, and the rattling of the poor slave's chains, al...

Twelve Years a Slave

The brightest skies are always foreshadowed by dark clouds

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Harriet Tubman

Solomon Northup: I don't want to survive. I want to live.

12 Years a Slave

When a slave mounts a camel he wants to ride on both humps.

Egyptian

Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home.

Norwegian

Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.

Traditional

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Ross Kemp

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freeman: Put the least thought in your head. C'mon, now. Think of somethin'.

12 Years a Slave

The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.

Augustine of Hippo

He who is a slave of truth is a free man.

Arabian

Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.

Angels in Stone

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

Plato

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Helen Keller