Quotes about Slave

I am the dream and the hope of the slave

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

The tyrant of Syracuse once went to the slavephilosopher Epictetus and told him, "I'll pay the ransom for you and you will be liberated " Epictetus replied, "Why do you care about me? Free yourself." "But I am a king," said the amazed tyrant. "This I contest," was the answer of the philosopher. "He who masters his passions is a king even while in chains. He who is ruled by his passions is a slave even while sitting on a throne.

So, with a ready heart I swore To seek their altar-stone no more; And gave my spirit to adore Thee, ever-present, phantom thing My slave, my comrade, my king

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.