1,063 Quotes About Slavery
- Author M.J. DeMarco
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The problem with being a hitchhiker is you really never know the driver. The driver could be ethical, moral, and just, or the driver could be corrupt and evil. Either way, as a hitchhiker you waive all power to your driver. He who owns the keys owns the power.Yet millions of people submit to this type of organizational control without pause. They sign franchise agreements, giving control over crucial business decisions, including marketing, ads, and royalties.
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- Author Ehsan Sehgal
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Decide your life, as your wishes and values, not the offer, and order of others; it is slavery.
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- Author Anne Gisleson
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Our failure of the one test God put before us, that of not enslaving other humans.
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- Author N.K. Jemisin
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Even the least of us must serve the greater good.
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- Author Angela Carter
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She learns her lesson at once; to escape slavery, she must embrace tyranny.
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- Author R.B. Cunninghame Graham
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Jamaica was the Ophir of the West of Scotland in those times. Upon its sugar fields and by the agency of its slave labour, Glasgow slowly emerged from its primeval state of small borough town, to be a business centre, rivalling and soon surpassing Bristol in its West India trade.
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- Author Captain Hank Bracker
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There are still people in the United States who believe they are more privileged than others. This may be because of their color, politics, national origin or economic and cultural status. This is the root of many of our national problems and the reason that we should consider carefully who the next president of our country should be!
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- Author Rajesh`
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Why should I lead a tough moral life if there is such injustice going on elsewhere?
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- Author Chanelle Benz
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the leather strap the broom the switchhabits before freedomfreedom: the lie which is truebefore: kept fed but close to deaththe penitentiary the gun the ropeis at hand now that you freefree: kept down with your eyes downnow: night riders patrol in carsthose born again die freea lie for grateful slavesgrateful: who are better offlie: who is better offdig down into the unmarked earthlay there and be free
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