Be A Slave Quotes - Page 3

• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Congress And The President, Giving, Free Spirit

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Giving, Slavery, Creatures

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.198, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• 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

  Life, Kings, Diversity

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.

  W. H. Auden

  Thinking, Style, Suffering

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• You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

  Julia Child

  Recipes, Slave, Cooks

  Interview with Polly Frost, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

  William Blake

  Men, Slave, Another Man

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• The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Rights, Government

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1937). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• The individual has totally different interests from the society, because the society has no soul. The society is soulless. And if you become too much a part of the society, it will reduce your soul also to a non-entity. Beware, before you have lost your whole opportunity. Don't be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny.

  Rajneesh

  Opportunity, Destiny, Soul

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• Why wouldn't somebody have the same legal rights as everybody else in our society? What is that about? I don't even understand them putting same sex marriage on the ballot. So if fifty-one percent of the people say it shouldn't happen, it's not going to happen? You can get fifty-one percent of the people to say just about anything - to say let's bring back slavery, or all Mexicans should be slaves, or something absolutely crazy like that. Does that mean we do it?

  Wayne Dyer

  Crazy, Mean, People

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• Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Art, Slave, Should

  Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), January 31, 2005.

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• I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

  Philip Roth

  Wish, Literature, Slave

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• The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Males, Slave

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• Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Country, Blood, Land

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• Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

  Algernon Sidney

  Men, Use, Might

  Algernon SIDNEY, Isaac Littlebury (1704). “Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author”, p.245

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• It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.

  William James

  Exercise, Men, Giving

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Men, White Man

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.362, Wildside Press LLC

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• Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

  William Cowper

  Kindness, Slave, Born

  William Cowper (1819). “Poems, etc”, p.2

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• Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. Why is man your god and not the Creator?

  Suzy Kassem

  Hurt, Brother, Men

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• If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

  Og Mandino

  Slave, Habit, Let Me

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.11, Bantam

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• I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing that's going on, there's some big spirit behind me who send me to do the thing that I must do.

  Lee “Scratch” Perry

  Mind, Want, Spirit

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• Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Atheism, Needs

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Christmas Holiday”, p.228, Random House

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• Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it is very simple and natural. It is very psychological. There comes an age when every child has to say NO to the parents. If he does not say no to the parents he will not have a spine; he will be spineless. If he cannot say no to the parents, he will be a slave his whole life. He will never attain to individuality.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Father, Simple

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• Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

  James A. Baldwin

  Running, Smart, Teaching

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• Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a lot of laundry piled up and the apartment is a wreck. Abby: Anything you desire, my lord. I can do laundry, clean, bring you small creatures to quench your thirst until I am worthy.

  Christopher Moore

  Desire, Wrecks, Want

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