#slave

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#brutal #canada #consider #divorce #evil

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. ↗

— Arrian

#been #centuries #danger #free #free men

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#around #been #call #comes #culture

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#ceaselessly #drunk #drunken #escape #hour

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#more #slave #than #think #who

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. ↗

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#slavery

Free men have arms; slaves do not. ↗