#slave

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#allow #america #blast #fair #flowers

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#exist #freedom #slavery #together

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #bible #bunch #encounter #first

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'. ↗

— Link Wray

#music #pain #slaves #soul #soul music

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#his #man #many #master #masters

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#became #become #danger #future #man

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#bigot #call #definite #dogma #end

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#declare #drawn #driven #either #forms

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#master #people #slave #two #two people

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#home #least #male #mother #shall