Slave Quotes

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

slavery was a system that depended on the creation of deep levels of fear.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

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?

I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.

MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.

Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.

Don’t become a slave to technology – manage your phone, don’t let it manage you.