Slaves

Famous quotes containing the word slaves:

“When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“No, I’m Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or something?”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)