121 Quotes About Slaves

Fear is the passion of slaves.

I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery. O God, save me! God, deliver me! Let me be free! Is there any God? Why am I a slave? I will run away. I will not stand it. Get caught, or get clear, I'll try it. I had as well die with ague as the fever, I have only one life to lose. I had as well be killed running as die standing. Only think of it; one hundred miles straight north, and I am free! Try it? Yes! God helping me, I will. It cannot be that I shall live and die a slave.

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.

Hal: "...Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us.""I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It sounds very comfortable. I imagine they're well padded.""Lined with feathers, in fact," Gilan put in.

The children of the Indians are saved, to be sold or given away as servants, or rather slaves, for as long a time as the owners can deceive them; but I believe in this respect there is little to complain of.

To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.

الحر تزداد قوته بحياته وسط أحرار .. ويزداد ضعفاً بحياته وسط عبيد

Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.

I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force they will bring against us. They will kill us, all of us, for we are slaves and we cannot be allowed even the barest hope of freedom. Without us, they have no empire.