#slaves

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#earth #first #god #heaven #long

In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#any #dead #different #family #here

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#between #commerce #disinterested #equals #friendship

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#bound #class #everywhere #laborers #miserable

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#been #colonial #cut #had #importation

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#freed #his #jefferson #slaves #upon

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#children #clear #country #god #hands

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ↗

— James Bovard

#being #burden #change #con #important

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. ↗

— David Garrick

#freemen #slaves #worst

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#nature #olden #ordinance #probably #regarded