#slave

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#always #brutality #european #haunted #heard

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#friend #never #slave #will #your

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#cat #friend #never #slave #will

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery! ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#countries #exploitation #infernal #liberation #live

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#based #colonial #enslavement #existence #free

I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion. ↗

— Annni-Frid Lyngstad

#fashion #i #like #myself #slave

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#break #economically #enslavement #had #home

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! ↗

— Bob Marley

#free #mental #minds #none #our

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. ↗