#slavery

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

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

#banks #continue #control #cost #create

All socialism involves slavery. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#slavery #socialism

Stardom can be a gilded slavery. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#slavery #stardom

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#inquisition #like #secrets #slavery #those

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— William Labov

#african #african american #american #appears #century

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

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#history #human #human history #page #prolonged

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. ↗