#enslave

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. ↗

— Alice Walker

#culture #enslaved #grew #i #i love

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#been #conformity #defects #does #education

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#america #call #democracy #else #enslave

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#breakdown #death #enslavement #existential #liberation

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#enslavement #entails #free #freedom #must

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

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It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#dead #enslaved #exhausted #her #here

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free. ↗

— Sophocles

#enslaved #free #mind #still

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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