#slave

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. ↗

— Horace Greeley

#freedom #god #law #liberty #oppression

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade. ↗

— Barnabe Barnes

#born #die #dust #fade #flourishing

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#any #cannot #condemned #divine #find

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. ↗

— Julian Bond

#entered #into #legal #passed #period

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. ↗

— James Connolly

#capitalist society #female #slave #society #worker

It is hard for the old slaveholding spirit to die. But die it must.... ↗

— Sujourner Truth

#slavery #freedom

When I see a poor person I think of me, and then I think, maybe I should pay my clones for all the work they do for me. Then I think, nah, they’re only slaves. Through my clones, I am a slave to myself.
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— Jarod Kintz

#clones #funny #humor #poor #slaves

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. ↗

— George Grey

#another #arrival #been #before #cargo

I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange. ↗

— Charles Guggenheim

#any #because #explicit #first #first time

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#brutally #designed #fits #harmony #institution