Top 1200 Slave Ships Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only to make the 3rd person his slave, but also a right to dispose of him as a slave to still other persons. Any contract to do this is necessarily a criminal one...To call such a contract a “constitution” does not at all lessen its criminality, or add to its validity.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

Without ships, we cannot live.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin Americas locked in a death match, was about slavery. They'll argue it was about economics, and they're right only because one of those economies was a slave economy. They'll argue it was about culture, and they're right only because one of those cultures was a slave culture.

When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.

Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.

Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but do not own / or who own, but do not work; or who distribute, as politicians do, but do not produce. The danger of the "slave state" disappears in ratio to the numbers of people who own property and admit its attendant responsibilities under God. They can call their souls their own because they own and administer something other than their souls. Thus they are free.

Ships are like children: they need individual attention.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

We have a lot of ships coming in and transmitting to us and bringing the information. So, it's very powerful.

It's not easy to take three ships out of service.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

It's fair to say that there's something retrograde about putting the leader of Star Wars rebellion in the position of "slave in a bikini." There's no question that that's a fair point. But, it is true, and it's kind of remarkable, that at this point in our history, the slave girl, for a time in the bikini, is the one who chokes her captor with her bare hands and using the chain with which he bound her. That's powerful stuff. That's more retributive feminism than I think teenaged boys had ever seen.

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

One's ships come in over a calm sea.

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

I hear Canada is still free though. They ain't got slaver camps and ships.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been that way. There has always been a division of man. There has always been the conqueror and conquered-the master and slave-the ruler and the ruled-the oppressor and the oppressed. There has never been content nor unity. There has been only discontent and disunity.

Tinkering with, and building the products Robinhood ships brings me joy.

I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships.

As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.

The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house slave said, well one of these days all of us will live in the plantation, they said, uh huh. They went along with him. But if you came up to them and said, let's go, they would be gone just like that.And in, in America you have the same situation.You have the vast masses who are still slaves.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

In Los Angeles, half of all smog from sulfur dioxide comes in from ships.

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.

Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

Loose lips sink ships.

I worked on anti-submarine warfare for surface ships.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.

I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's a free person in the whole world that knows how good a cup full of water can taste. Because you have to be a deprived slave, to be kept waiting for your water like we were to really appreciate how good just one swallow can be. When we finally got a drop on our tongues it was like something straight from the hands of the Almighty.