“The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves.” GivingArtFitDirectPerformancesSlaveAccessArtisticTolerateGreeceOrnamentsSnobPedants Book:Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New Source: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New
“Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.” MemoriesMoralOpinionHonorFitIntelligentRegardSlaveIdenticalDeceasedPharisees Author:Anton Chekhov
“It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who were powerful personalities, who by no means fit the usual images of slaves. They were people who, through their personalities and abilities, were very respected in the community where they lived by both black and white.” PeopleMeanAbleIndividualBlackCommunityAbilityWhitePowerfulGroupsPersonalityFitSlaveUsualBlack And WhiteColorfulIntrigued Author:Alex Haley
“Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his brain? Why is my work notpaid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my labor in the household, giving me in exchange what he deems fit? Why may he take my children from me? Will them away while yet unborn?" Let every woman ask.” MenGivingMayChildrenSaidBodyAsksBrainFitHusbandEqualLaborSlaveMy ChildrenMy HusbandControlledHouseholdUnbornMale Dominance Author:Voltairine de Cleyre
“Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.” PeopleMenSaidGovernmentPoliticsOughtFitMouthsConcernMiserySlaveNakedDestroyedFedsTyrantsProtectedDeceived Author:Cato the Younger
“Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.” LastsFreedomFitIntegrityCostSlaveDelusion Author:William Borah
“Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.” MenNeedsUseAnimalFitTrainingMachinesSlaveFree ManCogsLiberal EducationVocational Training Author:John Dewey
“The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave.” MadeDesireMastersDisciplineFitSlaverySlave Author:Jefferson Davis
“A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate.” MenMayConditionsFitDegreesLaborSlaveServantForbiddenCompelledBankingProhibition Author:Lysander Spooner