Slave Quotes - Page 22

• The idea of submission is never meant to allow someone to overstep another's boundaries. Submission only has meaning in the context of boundaries, for boundaries promote self-control and freedom. If a wife is not free and in control of herself, she is not submitting anyway. She is a slave subject to a slave driver, and she is out of the will of God.

  Henry Cloud

  Self, Ideas, Wife

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2002). “Boundaries in Marriage”, p.248, Zondervan

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• If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Fall, World, Proud

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• It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

  Louie Giglio

  Thinking, Earth, Absurd

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• We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

  Bernard Werber

  Children, Israel, Egypt

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• Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

  Ernest Renan

  Race, Soldier, Rebel

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• Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.

  Solomon Northup

  Horse, Jockeys, Examination

  Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.351, ShandonPress

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• Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

  James W. Loewen

  Firsts, Columbus, Individual

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• Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Rose, Events, Haiti

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• We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

  Thomas Piketty

  Opposites, Democracy, Want

  "Economist says U.S. inequality reaching "spectacular" heights". Interview with Alain Sherter, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2014.

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• The best traders are simply slaves to the market's price action

  Steve Burns

  Action, Traders

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• He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837). “Bentley's Miscellany”, p.54, Richard Bentley]

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• If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.

  Michael Parenti

  Running, Gun, Government

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• One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.

  Michael Parenti

  Children, Dirty, Thug

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• In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Profound, Joy

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.133, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

  Arthur Middleton

  Needs, Christ, Form

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• We are all slaves of our own actions. Why be angry with anyone else?

  Shantideva

  Action, Angry

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• Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.

  Kevin Bales

  Confused, Book, Games

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• In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

  Adam Hochschild

  Determination, Years, Two

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• He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

  Horace

  Life, Littles

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• Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Nature, Mean

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• Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

  Mark Twain

  Atheism, Reason, Duty

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.

  Anne Royall

  Men, Differences, People

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• We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are neither god nor demon; who are you, then, to make slaves? Orou! You understand the language of these men, tell us all, as you have told me, what they have written on this sheet of metal: This country is ours. This country yours? And why? Because you have walked thereon? If a Tahitian landed one day on your shores, and scratched on one of your rocks or on the bark of your trees: This country belongs to the people of Tahiti - what would you think?

  Denis Diderot

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Scary, Obeying God, Should

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• [God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

  Ezola B. Foster

  America, Scary, Descendants

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