Slavery Quotes - Page 20

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

Housing in New York City has become too expensive for many average wage earners, let alone people with marginal incomes, who find themselves displaced to far-flung neighborhoods or to the streets. Racist discrimination in housing, which has been around for decades and follows centuries of slavery, has exacerbated the housing affordability crisis for people of color.

Man alone can enslave man.

Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I’d rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden) So would I. (Acheron)

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?

Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.

All of us are called to fight #‎ humantraffickin g and #‎ slavery .

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism. One could equally say that slavery is a reality, and misogyny too.

It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves.