1,063 Quotes About Slavery
- Author Shannon Celebi
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Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.
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- Author Lalita Tademy
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Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that
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- Author Vernor Vinge
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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- Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Niemand ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als jene, die fälschlicherweise glauben, frei zu sein.
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- Author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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These are the woes of Slaves;They glare from the abyss;They cry, from unknown graves,"We are the Witnesses!
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- Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage.
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- Author Harriet Tubman
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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- Author Frederick Douglass
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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- Author Elizabeth Farrelly
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Larsson was an active and lifelong feminist, partly for personal reasons but also because he saw that ending gender slavery was as crucial to next-stage evolution as ending race slavery was to the last stage. It's a noble fight, not least because the various fundamentalisms threatening Western democracy are united in their urgent need to re-cage women's sexuality.
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