#slave

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#cannot #dare #fool #reason #slave

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#slavery #experience

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#better #christian #coat #code #creatures

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#choose #form #freedom #freedom means #less

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#obligation #out #sense #slave #you

I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#does #good #him #i #just

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ↗

— Epictetus

#foolish #nature #pleasures #resist #slave

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#master #once #remains #slave #unspoken

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#city #coast #got #gulf #lands

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great