Time. So much of our human experience is bound up in time, I muse. It reflects in our everyday colloquialisms, and drives so much of our activities. Yet this obsession with the passing of the...

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.

Words of Emancipation didn’t arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either...

É impossível justificar os excessos do povo ao pegar em armas… Mas é realmente o povo a quem devemos imputar tudo, ou a seus opressores, que os mantiveram por tanto tempo na escravidão? Aquele que...

…I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin somewhere. I hear my father-in-law’s response: ‘Oho, fine, Whiggish sentiments, Adam. But don’t...

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Well,” said St. Clare, “suppose that something shoul bring down the price of cotton once and forever, and make the whole slave property a drug in the market, don’t you think we should soon have...

The idea of any blood-thirsty pirate (Mexican President Diaz) sitting on a throne and reaching across the border to tromp on our Constitution makes my blood boil.” — Mother Jones

Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppres the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent the workers, farmers and revolutionary intellectuals and other enlighted people who...

No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent’s expectations. We are slaves to the pressures of our peers. We are slaves to our own ideologies...

A freedom-fighter is a slave to freedom.

Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations...

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It...

He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing.

It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the...

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor,...

Much as slavery in the United States was part of a larger Atlantic Slave System, so America’s War of Independence was an outgrowth of Europe’s Seven Years’ War — from 1756 to 1763 — and...

His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.

The frequent hearing of my mistress readingthe bible–for she often read aloud when herhusband was absent–soon awakened mycuriosity in respect to this mystery of reading,and roused in me the desire to learn. Having nofear of...

I own nothing, but at least nothing owns me. Well, besides the bank.

If I own a business, I work for myself. And if I have no revenue, I work for free. That’s not slavery. That’ll be the case when I employ 1,000,000,000 clones of myself. I won’t...

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

You can’t tell how heavy somebody else’s load is just from looking. The Lord doesn’t give us more than we can carry

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and...

12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.

Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God...

So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren, then they were to him: and they no more Authority to Sell him,...

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.

YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

The subject of British abolitionism has long been controversial, complex, and even baffling. It also raises the issue of moral progress in history – whether groups of reformers and even nations can succeed in eliminating...

A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice...

Death is better than slavery.

Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things they see they judge of things very different...

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

If you don’t feel apologetic for slavery, if you don’t feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.

Right now I’m thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It’s a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy – and it...

I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man’s and one woman’s love and desire,...

From other stories that have been handed down to me I know that my people, like many others in the slave states, went to church with their slaves, were baptized with them, and presumably expected...

Most so-called success in the world is slavery.