Slave Quotes - Page 35

• Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

  Karin Slaughter

  Girl, Country, Book

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• Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Soldier, Chains, Packs

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• When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

  Geoffrey Nunberg

  Girl, Fashion, Looks

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• The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

  Saint Augustine

  Vices, Sin

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.599, Catholic Way Publishing

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• We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will free us without violence. It will begin with the self. It will spread to the workplace. It will turn our corporate masters into our servants. It will free us of government's tyranny. The revolution will spread to all corners of the nation, and at last, we shall be free.

  Gerry Spence

  Government, Self, Liberty

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• Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  Children, Be A Slave

  Frederick Douglass (1855). “My Bondage and My Freedom ...”, p.146

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• Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

  Frederick Douglass

  Dream, Dog, Comfort

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.297, Library of America

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• The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Passion, Wrath

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.170

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• We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Men, Thinking, Atmosphere

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• We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Light, Yoke

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• Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

  H. L. Mencken

  Socialism, Theory, Masters

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• For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Self, Praise

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.290, CUA Press

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• If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.

  Thomas Paine

  Doe, Generations, Succeed

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.136

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• Throughout the ages advanced souls have yearned for a society in which liberty and justice prevail. Men have sought for it, fought for it, have died for it. Ancient freemen prized it; slaves longed for it; the Magna Charta demanded it; the Constitution of the United States declared it.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Justice, Soul

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• When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

  Aristotle

  Needs

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• Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

  John Dewey

  Animal, Men, Training

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• When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.

  Isabel Allende

  Men, Earning, Feels

  Isabel Allende (1993). “The Infinite Plan: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.

  Clarence Thomas

  Government, Humanity, Gay Marriage

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• I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Feelings, Way

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• If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Transformation

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• Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.

  Philip Yancey

  Sex, Alcohol, Way

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• It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Hurt, Loss, Law

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• The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Men, World

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

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• How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2013

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• He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Men, Doctors

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.286, Jaico Publishing House

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