Slave

Famous quotes containing the word slave:

“To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing ...”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)

“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like laborers who look for their wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 7:1-3.

“Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service, there resides
To make me slave to it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)