#enslave

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#enslaved #everything #i #idle #life

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#allow #america #black #career #celluloid

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#both #despises #enslaved #father #him

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. ↗

— William Blake

#business #compare #create #enslaved #i

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#believe #enslaved #falsely #free #hopelessly

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed? ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#back #children #enslave #friends #horror

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#animal #badly #beyond #cousins #creation

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

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

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

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants