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“With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.”

Amount Safe Highest Difficulty Slavery Lays Routine Twists Flip Gymnastics Quentin Tarantino Django Django Unchained

Author:Jamie Foxx

“We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.”

Ifs War Law Failing Constitution Slavery Slave Operations Hereafter Fugitive

Author:Jay Sekulow

“Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.”

Today Christian Violence Century Gay Doctors Murder Slavery Theology Abortion Justify Doctor Who Crusades Latent Christian Theology

Author:Amy Waldman

“There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.”

Should Mind Children Doe Play Body Form Teaching Exercise Lessons Elements Slavery Harm Your Children Compulsion Epistemology Pedagogy

Author:Plato

“It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.”

Real Facts Truth Science Next Freedom Masters Terrible Slavery Falsity Real Freedom

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.”

Persons I Can Speak My Own Known Slavery Observation

Book:Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave

Source: Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave

“Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it means letting him take possession of our life and change it, transform it, and free it from the darkness of evil and sin. ... Let us show the joy of being children of God, the freedom that living in Christ gives us which is true freedom, the freedom that saves us from the slavery of evil, of sin and of death!”

Thinking Giving Mean Children Shows Christian Joy Order Evil Christ Sin Acting Darkness Our Lives Slavery Possession Child Of God Obeying True Freedom Life And Change

Author:Pope Francis

“If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.”

Ifs Courses Thirds Institutions Slavery Property Restoring

Book:The Servile State

Source: The Servile State

“Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.”

Thinking Nations Happened Crazy Worst Slavery Worst Things Political Correctness Obamacare Stupid Things Be A Slave Nazi Germany Crazy Things Stupidest Being Stupid Really Dumb

Author:Benjamin Carson

“We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.”

Today Past Animal Civilization Built Slavery Slave Comparison Vegan Exploitation Exploits Civilisation

Author:Donald Watson

“No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.”

Has Beens Suffering Found Nations Abuse Slavery Ruins Officers Inconvenience Imposition Inspection

Book:A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana

Source: A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana

“A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.”

Men Conditions Fundamentals Slavery Slave Vanity

Author:Kedar Joshi

“If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.”

Ifs Humans Able Humanity Answers Fundamentals Slavery Wipe

Author:Kailash Satyarthi

“Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid and the attainment of peace. It is now the turn of men to join women in their struggle for equality.”

Men Country Turns Struggle Words Of Wisdom Slavery Folks Liberation Colonialism Attainment Apartheid Abolition Abolition Of Slavery

Author:Gertrude Mongella

“I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?”

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!”

Humans Certain Black Animal Benefits Abuse Praise Breaths Slavery Expenses Criticize Animal Rights Holocaust Ambiguity Convenient Animal Abuse

Author:Adela Popescu

“Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.”

Ifs World Humans Looks Made Self Animal Situation Intelligent Slavery Species Selfish Superiors Dumb Sufficient Animal Rights Self Sufficient Callous

Author:Adela Popescu

“It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!”

Humans Seems Animal Clear Dog Messages Slavery Response Loud Animal Rights Attacking Wildlife Captivity

Author:Adela Popescu

“Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.”

Humans Important Earth Suffering Animal Slavery Innocent Saving Plus Animal Rights Ecology Saving Animals

Author:Adela Popescu

“He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.”

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Base is the slave that pays.”

Pay Slavery Slave

Book:King Henry V: Third Series

Source: King Henry V: Third Series

“The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.”

Men Horror Slavery Blow Reform Labour Fabric Manhood Explosives Slums Sweating Crank

Author:David Lloyd George

“He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.”

Should Sometimes Masters Slavery Slave

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.”

Ifs Country Moments Fall Air England Slavery Slave Breathe Our Country That Moment Lungs Shackles Slavery Freedom

Author:William Cowper

“I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.”

Wealth Sleep Fans Slavery Slave

Book:The task: a poem

Source: The task: a poem

“I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.”

Men Universe Felt Fire Ready Slavery Burning

Book:My Generation: Collected Nonfiction

Source: My Generation: Collected Nonfiction

“Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.”

Thinking World Care Freedom Slavery Workers Unhappy Feeding Salary Migrants Monsanto Migrant Workers Feeding The World

Author:Wendell Berry

“No more slave States and no more slave territory.”

States Slavery Slave Territory

Author:Salmon P. Chase

“Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.”

Work Creativity Expression Slavery Duplicate

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.”

Mean Past Members Slavery Oppression Vulnerable Exploitation Emerging

Author:Juan Somavia

“The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.”

Term Class Eternal Slavery Slave

Author:James Henry Hammond

“Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people expose themselves to the danger of being weak, no one can tell when they will be reduced to slavery.”

People Long Able Individual Race Conditions Danger Protect Weak Slavery

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other recourse is EXTERMINATION.”

Ifs Firsts Slavery Exploitation Exploits Recourse Extermination Subjugation

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.”

Evil Results Slavery Presidential Pernicious Toleration Inhibitions

Author:Martin Van Buren

“This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.”

Years Mind Political Liberty Fire Century Revolution Slavery Hopefully Thinker Surprising Barbarism French Revolution

Book:The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte

Source: The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte

“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.”

Men Mind Use Body Might Able He Man Slavery Slave Bounds Rulers Sovereign Mental Slavery

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

“They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.”

States Agree Slavery Congress Territory Sanctuary

Book:Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

Source: Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

“The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.”

Character Government Rights Respect Constitution Slavery Doctrine Federal Government

Author:John Henninger Reagan

“Up until now, women have depended completely upon men for their survival. You're dealing with thousands of years of history, where sexual slavery was the condition. While suddenly the laws may change, to some extent, the conditioning doesn't go away that fast.”

Men Years May Law Women Conditions Survival Enlightenment Slavery Going Away Conditioning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.”

Political Social Women Creating Enlightenment Slavery Repression Ideological Mobility Depriving Decisiveness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.”

Men Women Enlightenment Slavery Innate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.”

Children Space Wife Slavery My Wife

Book:Packing for Mars

Source: Packing for Mars

“Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.”

Should Mean Causes Natural Perfect Class Mankind Fit Goodness Capable Abuse Slavery Surrender Imperfect Entitled Privileged Submission Perfect Man Very Mean

Author:Albert Meltzer

“The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.”

Political Modern Tools Slavery Crush Lacking Political Will Modern Slavery

Book:Half the Sky

Source: Half the Sky

“The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”

Existence Hell Slavery South Agreement Covenant Compact

Author:William Lloyd Garrison

“This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.”

Stills Faces Loses Slavery

Author:Lalita Tademy

“Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.”

Fighting Mistake Poverty Rich Share Slavery Slave Defeat Neighbor Cowardly Envious Objections

Book:Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme

Source: Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme

“I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.”

Ifs Wells May I Can Form Poor Stupid Slavery Slave Voting Efficient Marxism Fashionable No Hope

Book:A Taste for Death

Source: A Taste for Death

“The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?”

Self Faces Awareness Identity Self Awareness Slavery Exploration Refusal

Book:How to Wish

Source: How to Wish

“You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.”