Quotes with slave-owner

Quotes 81 till 100 of 115.

  • Buffalo Bill The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Andrea Dworkin The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
    Speech, September 2004
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ben Carson The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Cyril Connolly The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bobby Rahal The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Arthur Middleton The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Caleb Cushing The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bertrand Russell The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Brad D. Smith The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Thomas Jefferson The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Billy Baldwin The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
    Billy Baldwin
    American actor and writer
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • John Bunyan There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Nikki Giovanni There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
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