#slave

I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#back #came #communicating #differently #each

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#common #constitution #country #deprive #deprived

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#ants #armies #beings #capture #ceaselessly

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#amazed #facility #follow #i #i am

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#appears #believed #black #born #declaration

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#border #death #fire #free #itself

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 trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. ↗

— Alice Walker

#either #else #fact #give #got

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. ↗

— George Washington

#adopted #i #i can #i do #living

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave. ↗

— Jenny Weber

#master #must #slave #you #your