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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

— Ezra Pound

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

— H. Rap Brown

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

— Wayne Dyer

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

— Lysander Spooner

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

— Jose Bergamin

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

— Joseph Campbell

I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.

— Shannon Elizabeth

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

— Jean de la Bruyere

✗Opposing Perspectives

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.

— Lysander Spooner