Michael Emerson Quotes

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

You're a Good Little Slave

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

That’s a slave talking.

To disarm the people—that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.

Slavery made the Negro as dependent upon the intelligence and foresight of his master as a soldier upon the will of his commander

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

We are the slaves of slaves

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.