Freedom Of Slaves Quotes

Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time ours is the now and here of freedom . Come — E. E. Cummings

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves. — William Hazlitt

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free. — Heraclitus

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves. — Mahatma Gandhi

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves. — Stefan Molyneux

Slaves do not have the bravery of free men. — Pierce Brown

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom. — Ezola B. Foster

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. — Idries Shah

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen. — Jonathan Swift

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases. — Rousas John Rushdoony

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. — William Cowper

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen. — J.S.B. Morse

We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them. — Timothy B. Tyson

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'. — Winston Churchill

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? — Mary Astell

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. — George Gordon Byron

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart. — John Ford

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. — Nancy Gibbs

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. — Herbert Marcuse

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: 'If the price we pay for freedom is high, we pay a much higher price if we accept to be slaves. — Nawal El Saadawi

There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than from spades. — G.K. Chesterton

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. — Thomas Moore

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves. — H.L. Mencken

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. — Frederick Douglass

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides. — William Cowper

Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not. — Mahatma Gandhi

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other? — Alexander Hamilton