Quotes with slave-owner

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  • Robert Underwood Johnson Man's mind and not his master makes him slave.
    To the Spirit of Byron
    Robert Underwood Johnson
    American journalist, writer and diplomat (1853 - 1937)
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  • Carol Roth Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.
    Carol Roth
    American television personality and author (1973 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Malcolm X My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Euripides No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Bob Barr Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Harriet Tubman Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • Samuel Rutherford Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
    Samuel Rutherford
    Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author (1600 - 1661)
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  • Mark Twain Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alberto Moravia Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
    Alberto Moravia
    Italian writer (ps. by Alberto Pincherle) (1907 - 1990)
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  • H. Rap Brown See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • W. H. Auden Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Mike Tyson Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
    Mike Tyson
    American boxer and media personality (born 1966) (1966 - )
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  • Bill Gates Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Diogenes of Sinope The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
    Diogenes of Sinope
    Greek philosopher (412 - 323)
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  • Brad D. Smith The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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