Quotes with slave-ship

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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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  • Mahatma Gandhi Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 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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  • 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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  • Billy Campbell On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • John Bunyan One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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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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  • 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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  • Theodore Parker The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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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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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • 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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  • Martin Luther The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
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