#avery

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#consent #definition #governed #reason #slavery

George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother. ↗

— George Dawson

#slavery #life

Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#slavery #humor

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#growth #resolution #bravery

A man without fear, is a man I strive to be. ↗

— Geoffrey Brokos

#bravery

It’s okay to be crazy and scared and brave at the same time! ↗

— Kelly Epperson

#crazy #fear #scared #bravery

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers. ↗

— Angela Y. Davis

#denial #history #memory #slavery #imagination

Dude, could you please get off my girlfriend before I beat the crap out of you ? I don't want to injure her. ↗

— Stacey Wallace Benefiel

#funny #funny

All people are enslaved by something. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #people #poetry #poetry-quotes

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#bravery #dejan-stojanovic #grain #literature #literature-quotes