Quotes about Master

Abraham Lincoln

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Having deprived her [women] of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise. thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he [men] has oppressed her on all sides. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns …. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty. and to administer chastisement.

In this famous declaration, Stanton summarized the relative status of men and women in the society at that time. Women then could not control their own property, have their own money. “Chastisement” referred to the fact that a husband could then legally discipline his wife physically and beat her if she were not suvviciently obedient.

Bob Greene

When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Frances Wright

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

Henry George

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

Paul Celan

Death is a master from Germany.

Dalai Lama

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Hugh Grant

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Alexander Hamilton

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

Rakim

Eminem is a master.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

The wife owes service and labor to her husband as much and as absolutely as the slave does to his master.

Lysander Spooner

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

William Parker

One fact, when I was a slave, often filled me with indignation. There were many poor white lads of about my own age, belonging to families scattered around, who were as poor in personal effects as we were; and yet, though our companions, (when we chose to tolerate them,) they did not have to be controlled by a master, to go and come at his command, to be sold for his debts, or whenever he wanted extra pocket-money. The preachers of a slave-trading gospel frequently told us, in their sermons, that we should be "good boys," and not break into master's hen-roost, nor steal his bacon; but they never told this to these poor white people, although they knew very well that they encouraged the slaves to steal, trafficked in stolen goods, and stole themselves.

Parker and other escaped slaves in Christiana fought off slave catchers and killed the slave owner leading them. Charged with treason, he escaped to Canada with his family and lived there the rest of his life. While not a polished writer, after he himself had escaped and went to Christiana and leaned to read and write. He wrote this narrative of his life as a slave—one of the few written works we have from slaves.