Slave Ownership Quotes

#1. The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

Oswald Chambers

#2. Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

Jessica Chastain

#3. All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all.

Lupita Nyong'o

#4. I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

Bill Ayers

#5. The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.

Ned Sublette

#7. Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults ... is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle)

Thomas Carlyle

#8. Rumours of Damen's enslavement in Vere had spread like fire through the camp. To see the Veretian Prince wear the gold cuff of a palace bed slave in turn was shocking, intimate, a symbol of Damen's ownership. Damen

C.S. Pacat

#9. I was a part of that Beanie Babies generation. I had, like, 400 of them ... OK, maybe not that many, but I had a lot of little stuffed animals that I liked to make talk. I was a big dork, and I still am.

Jessica Stroup

#10. God not only allowed for joyful worship but also commanded it.

Max Anders

#11. Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

Mohsin Hamid

#12. If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

Billy Wilder

#13. Ligh doesn't shine in the light; it shines in the dark.

Erich Maria Remarque

#14. What's with that?' Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. 'Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie?

Jim Butcher

#15. war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other." The

Neal Shusterman

#16. Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

Jacob Zuma

#17. How could America send men into space and still keep its black citizens in bondage?

Barack Obama

#18. The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be "secured" - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.

Fulton J. Sheen

#19. Information wants you to give me a dollar.

Bruce Sterling