Quotes with slave-ship

Quotes 101 till 120 of 137.

  • 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.
    Source: Speech, September 2004
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Grover Cleveland The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • James Reston The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
    James Reston
    In Holland born, American journalist (1909 - 1995)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Thomas Wolfe This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • William Shakespeare This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • D. H. Lawrence This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old, nor cease to be blue, nor in the dawn cease to lift up its hills and let the slim black ship of Dionysos come sailing in with grapevines up the mast.
    Source: Middle of the World (1929)
    D. H. Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Assata Shakur To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
    Source: Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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