Quotes with slave-ship

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  • Billie Holiday I've been your slave
    Ever since I've been your babe
    But before I be your dog
    I'll see you in your grave.
    Billies Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bob Dole If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
    Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007)
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Enoch Powell If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • Caleb Cushing If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Wayne Dyer If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Jonathan Winters If your ship with happiness doesn't come in, swim out to it.
    Jonathan Winters
    American actor and comedian (1925 - 2013)
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  • George Orwell Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Flores Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Jami In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
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  • Abraham Lincoln In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Szasz Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Hans J. Morgenthau Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
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  • Anthony Eden Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
    Anthony Eden
    British politician (1897 - 1977)
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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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  • 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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  • Billy Campbell Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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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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