More quotations tagged with “slavery”
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
—George Gurdjieff
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
—Robert Herrick
I learned to believe in freedom, to glow when the word democracy was used, and to practice slavery from morning to night. I learned it the way all of my Southern people learn it: by closing door after door until one's mind and heart and conscience are blocked off from each other and from reality.
—Lillian Smith
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart, and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
—Frederick Douglass
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson