210 Quotes About Slave

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

You have this novel idea of the world, like it’s made up of ladder hunting and test taking and framed plaques, all of which mean nothing to your current position. I know enough to know that you are dumb enough to believe in your ability, and that my friend is why you are given the opportunities to rise.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

To be a slave is not the only specific class, but one can be the slave of the creed, caste, colour, wealth, status, and sex. The most dangerous and severest slavery is to ignore the views of your intellectuals of the past and the present time.

The better you treat a slave, the more you destroy his value as a slave, and enhance the probability of his eluding the grasp of the slaveholder; the more kindly you treat him, the more wretched you make him, while you keep him in the condition of a slave.

If a slave has a bad master, his ambition is to get a better; when he gets a better, he aspires to have the best; and when he gets the best, he aspires to be his own master.

To be a slave is not the only upper class, but one can be the slave of the creed, caste, colour, wealth, status, and sex. The most dangerous, and severest slavery is to ignore the views of your intellectuals of the past and the present time.

While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark period in American history.