#slavery

Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves. ↗

— Barry Estabrook

#slavery #food

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#grows #slavery #soil #weed

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#congress #declare #everywhere #go #into

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#acquisitions #california #compromises #concessions #conquest

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#beings #bought #branded #burden #discrimination

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. ↗

— William Weld

#government #greatest #never #nineteenth #nineteenth century

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#ann #better #business #confirmed #growing

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#father #form #less #odious #profession

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#pursuit #slavery #tool #way #wealth