Slave Quotes

They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.