Slave Owners

Famous quotes containing the words slave owners, slave and/or owners:

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)

““... The slave will never thank his manumitter;
Which often makes the manumitter bitter.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The work of the miner has its unavoidable incidents of discomfort and danger, and these should not be increased by the neglect of the owners to provide every practicable safety appliance. Economies which involve a sacrifice of human life are intolerable.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)