1,063 Quotes About Slavery

Long days spent chasing wind, wanting to catch it between the palms of your hands.Last weekend distant again until another next Friday. Mondays welcome all that is unholy after the holiest day. Bosses command, say this like that. Do this more correctly. Stand at attention. Work skins flesh to bone.

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?

They want you poor, so they can be rich.They want you weak, so they can be powerful.They want you dumb, so they can be smart.They want you guilty, so they can be innocent.You cannot realize it, but you’re nothing more than a slave.

To paraphrase what the President of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev said on American TV in 1953, “You Americans are so gullible! No, you won’t accept Communism outright. But we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you fall like over-ripe fruit into our hand.

A maid’s love for her own children often forces her to pretend to love her employer’s children.

I refuse to believe that all men are pigs and women competing whores.

Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities. If people force you to do certain work, or unrewarded work, for a certain period of time, they decide what you are to do and what purposes your work is to serve apart from your decisions. This process whereby they take this decision from you makes them a part-owner of you; it gives them a property right in you

I refuse to believe all men are pigs and women competing whores.-ANASTASIA

Un buen esclavo les costaba mil dólares y no duraba mucho. Algunos cometían la ingratitud de enfermarse y morir. Había que sacar de esos inseguros el mayor rendimiento. Por eso los tenían en los campos desde el primer sol hasta el último; por eso requerían de las fincas una cosecha anual de algodón o tabaco o azúcar.