1,063 Quotes About Slavery
- Author Dane Whalen
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Anarchy and Liberty are synonymous. Anything less is merely gradient levels of slavery.
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- Author Darnell Lamont Walker
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When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.
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- Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay.
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- Author Tiffany Reisz
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A hostage?""They used the word slave, but isnt' it the same thing? Isn't that what you'd call it if someone stole me and put me in a house and wouldn't let me leave? Isn't it?
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- Author Sue Monk Kidd
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By law, a slaw was three-fifths of a person. It came to me that what I’d just suggested would seem paramount to proclaiming vegetables equal to animals, animals equal to humans, women equal to men, men equal to angels. I was upending the order of creation. Strangest of all, it was the first time thoughts of equality had entered my head, and I could only attribute it to God, with whom I’d lately taken up and who was proving to be more insurrectionary than law-abiding.
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- Author Roxane Gay
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There is no collective slavery revenge fantasy among black people, but I am certain, if there were one, it would not be about white people, not at all.
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- Author Андрей Шумило
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Спорить с добровольными рабами — все равно что вести дискуссию с цепными псами: оглохнешь от лая и грохота цепей.
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- Author Orson Scott Card
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Slavery, that was a kind of alchemy for such White folk, or so they reckoned. They calculated a way of turning each bead of a Black man's sweat into gold and each moan of despair from a Black woman's throat into the sweet clear sound of a silver coin ringing on the money-changer's table. There was buying and selling of souls in that place. Yet there was nary a one of them who understood the whole price they paid for owning other folk.
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- Author Osho
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Man cannot be reduced to slavery if he is not distorted first. The politician and the priest have been in a deep conspiracy down the ages. They have been reducing humanity to a crowd of slaves. They are destroying every possibility of rebellion in man—and love is rebellion, because love listens only to the heart and does not care a bit about anything else.
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