#slave

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#armed #buildings #enemy #exist #flag

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#am #attain #desired #fate #homelessness

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent. ↗

— John Brough

#attempt #cannot #confederacy #continent #else

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

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#again #ancestors #ancestry #black #forced

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#families #i #more #need #patriarchal

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#doctrine #government #i #i believe #i believe that

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#concern #exclusively #north #nothing #slavery

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#load #much #north #poor #slavery