#avery

He who is brave is free ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#freedom #gallantry #freedom

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#slavery #freedom

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#cowardice #freedom #freedom

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, against the history of two worlds, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery. So I wrote this book for my friend, with whom I have lived and will die free. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#love #slavery #forgiveness

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#insolence #slavery #freedom

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

#freedom #good #slavery #freedom

I can only be free when the other people around me are free. ↗

— Jordan Jones

#being-yourself #no-freedom #slavery-power #freedom

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. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#freedom #juneteenth #liberty #slavery #freedom

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

— Karl Marx

#civil-war #communism #freedom #freedom-of-choice #liberty

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

— Marvin Harris

#slavery #state #freedom