“Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.” SonMastersRevolutionMembersIntellectualRoseSlaveEducatedServantElitesTribesConqueror Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam
“power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.” IfsThinkingMenFirstsBelieveReasonLastsFearChangeDarkDealsPowerfulRolesPowerPossibilityMastersRevolutionAuthorityLosingSlaveCommittedContradictionWomens RightsProjectionIf You BelieveNew DealReversalPolarization Author:Elizabeth Janeway
“I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.” RevolutionConstitutionSlaveComicRebellious Book:Conversations with Saul Bellow Source: Conversations with Saul Bellow
“Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.” StatesEventsMastersRevolutionRoseSlaveWesternHaiti Author:Madison Smartt Bell
“It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.” IfsMenShouldLongDiesWiseRevolutionAll ThingsFortuneSlaveSeriesPursuitTitlesGreat MenAncestryDescentEpitaphTopsy Turvy Author:Seneca the Younger
“If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.” IfsMenLooksCan DoSituationExampleHe ManRevolutionCreatingSlaverySlaveSeedsGreek Author:Nikki Giovanni
“We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will free us without violence. It will begin with the self. It will spread to the workplace. It will turn our corporate masters into our servants. It will free us of government's tyranny. The revolution will spread to all corners of the nation, and at last, we shall be free.” SelfGovernmentLastsTurnsIndividualNationsLibertyViolenceMastersRevolutionSlaveCornersSpreadTyrannyCorporateServantWorkplaceIndividual Liberty Author:Gerry Spence
“If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.” IfsMenTryingProblemHouseWillingRevolutionLonelySlave Author:Yoko Ono
“Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.” WayEffectsRevolutionSlaverySlaveRebellionOngoingAbolitionistHaitianHaitian RevolutionEnding Slavery Author:Manisha Sinha
“The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.” FirstsBigsRememberRevolutionSlaveScalesExperimentsDramaticRegimesEmancipationLarge ScaleHaitianHaitian Revolution Author:Laurent Dubois
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.” PoliticalPoliticsFreedomRevolutionCapitalismRemainsSlaveAncientCommunismGreekOwnersRepublicCommunistTyrantsIndividualismCapitalistAncient GreekSlave Owners Author:Vladimir Lenin
“It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.” PeopleIfsKnowsHeartLongTwoDreamAgeThreeLinesSpaceWalksTakenAirMovementFieldsRevolutionArmsTownsSlaverySlaveWoodsWanderLiberationPlanesDimensionsStringsHardshipTransitionExileSplendidFrench RevolutionHomesickThree Dimensions Book:Out of Africa Source: Out of Africa