Male Slave Named

Famous quotes containing the words male, slave and/or named:

    ...I am who I am because I’m a black female.... When I was health director in Arkansas ... I could talk about teen-age pregnancy, about poverty, ignorance and enslavement and how the white power structure had imposed it—only because I was a black female. I mean, black people would have eaten up a white male who said what I did.
    Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)

    I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn’t break my bonds.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    And he appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, to be with him, and to be sent out to proclaim the message...
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 3:14.