#slave

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#enslave #free #people #themselves

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#cited #house #matter #petitions #proceedings

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#book #comic #comic book #compilation #day

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#congress #declare #everywhere #go #into

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. ↗

— James Thomson

#never #rule #slaves #waves #will

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#beings #bought #branded #burden #discrimination

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#conqueror #ever #exterior #i #life

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#freeing #grasp #human #human mind #itself

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#joy #life #life is a #pleasure #slavery

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#being #boss #employee #find #i