#slave

Go back to bed, Cowan. I want no promises from you. ↗

— Sandi Layne

#ireland #norway #slaves #vikings #historical-fiction

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#especially #everywhere #expect #humanity #i

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#police #protection #slaves #their #want

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner. ↗

— Spike Lee

#dancer #days #dinner #good #job

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. ↗

— Doug Wilder

#history #involvement #joke #nation #nothing

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#days #even #feels #looked #now

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#create #god #king #like #slave

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#looks #nature #private #road #sect

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#tyrants #where