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WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS… IN THE TERROR FOREST! WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!

—Widad Akrawi

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The day he was to sell the children from their mother he would tell that mother to go to some other place to do some work and in their absence he would sell the children....

—Work Projects Administration

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Vampire Willow Rosenberg: “In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.

—Buffy the

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typical” white Southerner was not a slaveholding planter but a small farmer who tried, often without success, to achieve both relative self-sufficiency and a steady income from marketable cash crops.

—David Brion Davis

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Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed...

—Euripides

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As a rule,I believe people shouldn’t follow rules;rules should follow people.

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Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads his way back to the terrors and perils of that dark land, that...

—Harriet Beecher

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Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

—Jerry Ash

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Isn’t it funny how freedom is only another word for slavery?

—Lionel Suggs

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We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was...

—Oliver Wendell

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Look at meI am the life in a wastelandLook at meI am the slavery through the agesLook at meI am the mirror of the worldLook at meI am the illusion I’ve fought forLook at meI’m...

—Rixa White

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A man is always a little shamefaced on his wedding day, like a fox caught in a baited trap, ensnared because his greed overcame his better judgment. The menfolk laughed at Charlie that spring day,...

—Sharyn McCrumb

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And what is that religion that sanctions, even by its silence, all that is embraced in the ‘Peculiar Institution’? If there can be any thing more diametrically opposed to the religion of Jesus, than the...

—Sojourner Truth

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Everything is acceptable until we stop accepting them.

—Peter Adejimi

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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

—Wendell Phillips

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This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.

—Euripides

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The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.

—Augustine of Hippo

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Strip by strip the lash carved into Grace’s shuddering flesh. My tears were falling by then, heavy drops, joining in the leaf dust with the blood that had begun to trickle from the table. My...

—Geraldine Brooks

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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and...

—Frederick Douglass

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in this great land of the free we call it human trafficking. And so long as we don’t partake in the luxury, ignoring slavery is of no consequence. It is much easier to look away...

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I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when paired together. One was the inevitable, something I could not change in my...

—Jay Grewal

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Larsson was an active and lifelong feminist, partly for personal reasons but also because he saw that ending gender slavery was as crucial to next-stage evolution as ending race slavery was to the last stage....

—Elizabeth Farrelly

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Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing our democracy. They wrote the Constitution and added a Bill of Rights that intended for people of all classes to enjoy the freedoms the Constitution offers....

—Jerry Ash

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Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with...

—Laura Esquivel

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Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have...

—Kwame Nkrumah

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Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

—W.G. Sebald

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We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious,...

—Samuel Johnson

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With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.

—Robert G.

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The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!

—Widad Akrawi

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Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.Pastoral scene of the gallant south,The bulging eyes and...

—Abel Meeropol

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The light on her face was a lesson, a book that she hoped he would want to read, but he looked away from her…she did not want this man to leave her alone. He was...

—Caryl Phillips

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HIt is surely certain – as certain as one can be about any historical events – that the fall of New World slavery could not have occurred if there had been no abolitionist movements. We...

—David Brion Davis

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It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage....

—Hypatia Bradlaugh

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e have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The...

—Frederick Douglass

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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can...

—Fernando Pessoa

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Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.

—Margarita Engle

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Is power like the vis viva and the quantite d’avancement? That is, is it conserved by the universe, or is it like shares of a stock, which may have great value one day, and be...

—Neal Stephenson

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In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from...

—Kim Stanley

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If we could only get rid of consciousness. What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. To be part of the animal...

—Joseph Conrad

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Debt is the slavery of the free

—Publilius Syrus

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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

—Terence McKenna

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Slaves do not have the bravery of free men.

—Pierce Brown

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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE… AND BEG EVERYONE… TO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN.

—Widad Akrawi

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

—Abraham Lincoln

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Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate: only the unloved hate,...

—Charles Chaplin

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mudsill” class necessary to support every society.

—David Brion Davis

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Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery’s full grip on U.S. Society – its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in...

—Douglas A.

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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

—Gary L.

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