#slavery

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#insolence #slavery #freedom

The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#freedom #good #slavery #freedom

I can only be free when the other people around me are free. ↗

— Jordan Jones

#being-yourself #no-freedom #slavery-power #freedom

Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#freedom #juneteenth #liberty #slavery #freedom

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded. ↗

— Karl Marx

#civil-war #communism #freedom #freedom-of-choice #liberty

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery ↗

— Marvin Harris

#slavery #state #freedom

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master? ↗

— Courtney M. Privett

#freedom #slavery #freedom

LIberty is slavery. Or, well, you already know. P.S. Can you find my logo in the image? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#freedom #george-orwell #illustrator #jarod-kintz #liberty

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#born #into #kidnapped #like #slavery

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