#slaves

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#collecting #intends #man #master #masters

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

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#able #brotherhood #day #dream #former

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? ↗

— Mary Astell

#free #how #men #slaves #women

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#ceaselessly #drunk #drunken #escape #hour

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler. ↗

— Samuel Morse

#being #character #condition #employer #having

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#i #into #just #keep #labor

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#cannot #condition #consider #either #gratifying

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. ↗

— Robert Treat Paine

#columbia #earth #plant #rolls #sea

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge. ↗

— Fritz Perls

#dependency #encouragement #especially #everybody #judge