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.

Private ownerships of a …slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms of violence. But I had fallen among pirates and life insurance underwriters.

The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don’t move.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe.

The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always! it can’t be helped, etc.; and he walks off, with his acquisition, in...

Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a union meeting. I have some things to say today that God would not want to hear in His own house. Boys, I...

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

We had a little slave boy whom we had hired from some one, there in Hannibal. He was from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and had been brought away from his family and his friends,...

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the Capitol. The voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom and equality, and the...

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and...

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enlightenment … cross over into Ohio in order to utilize their industry and to be able...

Miranda was shocked to hear Nicholas speak of slavery in glowing terms, as an efficient agricultural system. This wasn’t the South! Yet as she surveyed her employer’s strong dark profile in secret from beneath her...

many national leaders including Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Adams, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris, and Rufus King saw American slavery as an immense problem, a curse, a blight, or a national disease. If the...

The Irish were poor, but not enslaved. He had come here to hack away at the ropes that held American slavery in place. Sometimes it withered him just to keep his mind steady. He was...

My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man...

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure....

all men are created equal” really meant. Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln wrangled for 21 hours on seven stages. They made strategic choices and battled to gain support for different views of the future....

And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit...

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

Niemand ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als jene, die fälschlicherweise glauben, frei zu sein.

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to...

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban on the enslavement of Christians (and of Jews). Within the context of medieval...

ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS’ SOULS R BEGGING:HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE

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...

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...

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...

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...