Slave Labor

Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or labor:

    “In some withdrawn, unpublic mead
    Let me sigh upon a reed,
    Or in the woods, with leafy din,
    Whisper the still evening in:
    Some still work give me to do,—
    Only—be it near to you!
    For I’d rather be thy child
    And pupil, in the forest wild,
    Than be the king of men elsewhere,
    And most sovereign slave of care:
    To have one moment of thy dawn,
    Than share the city’s year forlorn.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “But genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)