#slaves

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. ↗

— George Mason

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The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. ↗

— George Mason

#labor #performed #poor #slaves

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#freedom #her #mockery #over #slaves

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#gaul #nobility #orders #people #priesthood

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. ↗

— Huey Newton

#given #moment #people #slavery #slaves

If we are not represented, we are slaves. ↗

— James Otis

#slaves

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#became #become #danger #future #man

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#economically #feel #female #force #had

Fear is the passion of slaves. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#passion #slaves

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#father #knowing #little #man #many