#slave

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. ↗

— Nina Simone

#been #never #slavery #thinking #way

Gifts make slaves. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#make #slaves

Where annual elections end where slavery begins. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#begins #elections #end #slavery #where

All people are enslaved by something. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #people #poetry #poetry-quotes

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #bible #bunch #encounter #first

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#his #man #many #master #masters

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#enslave #necessary #only #philosophy #popular

Death is better than slavery. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#death #slavery #than

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#exists #north #slavery #south #white

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#fully #old #slave #songs #themselves