Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for something. When we have neither longing, I think that is what they call...

The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do not want to do, plus you get talked down to, ordered around by...

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, – that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking...

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.

Illusions of freedom will never satisfy me.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

What’s the story here, Karl?’ Kevin asked.’Hard as it is to believe, these people are slaves,’ Karl explained.’Slaves?’ I asked skeptically.’Well, you might not call them that but they are virtual slaves. They don’t receive...

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the...

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

Although the Civil War was an apocalyptic success in the sense that it brought an end to nearly a century of struggle and broken hopes regarding the ultimate extinction of African American slavery, it also...

Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.

unnecessary” harm on animals, and that is measured by what treatment is considered as necessary within particular industries, and according to customs of use, to exploit animals. The bottom line is that animals do not...

She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.

The brightest skies are always foreshadowed by dark clouds

Tell your wives and your older children to bring with them dish pans and cooking pots. Tell them to bring their stirring spoons and ladles. Tell them to carry a mop over their shoulders. We’re...

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and...

Weekends are an employee’s parole.

Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham....

I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them...

I will follow anyone… And tell everyone…How grateful I am…To the Western nations.

I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.

…A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment–with its redefinition of personhood–is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a...

Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed to perpetual slavery, in consequence of yielding up to tyrants their natural born...

I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I should be false to the earlierst sentiments of my soul, if...

A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well.

Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like...

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.

This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.

The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called Sheila’s Front Porch, Tawny’s High Five Ranch and Miss Delilah’s House of Holies.”Nice,”...

A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.

The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.

Paul D did not answer because she didn’t expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission...

We don’t want any relationship! we just need someone who listen us, who is ready to do anything for us without saying no. In short we just need one slave!

No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain...

Not kill us,” Pigeon corrected. “She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

this Revolutionary ideology, epitomized by the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence, showed that the very idea of slavery is a fiction or fraud, since liberty and equality are fundamental rights that no one...

George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else...

He’s a friend of the family.”So that’s it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.