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“Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.”

Character Law Order Natural Slavery Scary Command Preservation Disturbance Natural Order

Author:Saint Augustine

“The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.”

“Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.”

Animal Slavery Experiments Pet Ownership

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.”

“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”

Form Political Politics Liberty Democracy Slavery Extremes Tyranny Arise Dictatorship Dictator Plato Democracies Have Aggravated

Author:Plato

“No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.”

Men Memories Study Ought Slavery Remains Rooted Plato Compulsion Pursued Good Memories

Book:The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan

Source: The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan

“And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.”

Ifs Men Should Boys Greater Poet Ears Slavery Angry Strikes Charm Meant To Be Passages Plato Unattractive

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.”

Reality Religion Millions Gone Gay Slavery Biblical Protestants Homophobia Selective Abolishing Slavery

Author:William Sloane Coffin

“Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.”

Freedom Liberty Opinion Slavery Conformity

Book:Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, The

Source: Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, The

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”

States Seems Lying Individual Liberty Philosophical Slavery Excess Individual Liberty

Author:Plato

“Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults”

Giving Children War Hate Force Expression Becoming Adults Hatred Slavery Instruments Killing Soldier Violent Compelled Child Soldier

Author:Olara Otunnu

“It seems to me that the term 'free will' is one of the most manipulated and exploited terms. The real explanation of free will is not that you have free will but that your will can eventually make you free, that will can liberate you, that will can release you from slavery.”

Real Seems Motivational Term Slavery Release Explanation Free Will Will Power

Author:Torkom Saraydarian

“Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery.”

World Slavery Injustice No Brainer Injustice In The World

Author:Gary Haugen

“Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom.”

Persons God Pain Past Purpose Suffering Order Given Cases Ultimate Slavery Patterns Storm God Love Jonah Past Wrongs

Book:Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

“This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.”

“The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade and its consequences on three continents. This book is full of fresh ideas and astounding detail; it is at once great storytelling, punctuated with real people and voices, and an unblinking analysis of numerous great questions and paradoxes about the power of slavery in creating the Atlantic world over four centuries.”

“Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”

Years Two Whole America Moral Five Policy Equal Hundred Slavery Debt Thirty Five Years Fifty Racist Sixty Ninety Housing Crow Jim Crow Separate But Equal

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Slavery is more mental than anything”

Slavery Hip Hop

Author:Kanye West

“The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.”

World Years Born Creativity Creative Years Ago Scientist Slavery South Centre

Author:George Washington Carver

“God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.”

Knows World Government Lasts Evil Responsible Slavery Endure Presidential Destroying God Knows Detest Free Government

Book:Millard Fillmore Papers

Source: Millard Fillmore Papers

“Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.”

Slavery Unions Presidential Foul Stains

Book:The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk

Source: The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk

“Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.”

Needs Justice Rights Generations Movement Slavery Environmental Civil Rights Humanist Womens Rights Abolition Our Generation Need Money Abolition Of Slavery

Book:Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

Source: Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

“If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion's sake; that he will punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This belief built the dungeons of the Inquisition. This belief made the Puritan murder the Quaker.”

Source: Interviews

“In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.”

Humans Children Age Religion Church Century Position Slavery Trade Slave

Author:Mark Twain

“It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.”

Humans Hands Religion Heaven Church Prove Absolutes Slavery Flesh Mastery Dealer Priesthood Slaveholders

Author:William Lloyd Garrison

“Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life and death. Religions introduce us not to God but to slavery. They deprive us of our freedom to explore our own souls and to discover the endless and wondrous possibilities presented to us by an infinite universe. And most often the method of religions is fear, not love. They demand blind obedience and often obedience to dreadful dogma.”

Source: Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life

“Greed is permanent slavery”

Wisdom Wise Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Slavery Greed Selling Permanent Comparison Insightful Deep Thought Wise Man Once Said

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.”

Men Soul Given Intellectual Slavery Individuality Every Man Given Up Coffins Nonconformity Intellectual Freedom Conformity And Individuality Mental Slavery

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom. This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.”

Able Spirit Hours Careers Offers Angel Praise Slavery Embrace Entertainment Conviction Cheer Foul Recollection Gloom Hold Me Departed Darkest Hour

Book:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

“I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!”

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

“My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life), was slightly tinged with a feeling of sadness.”

Desire Labor Slavery Abolition Abolition Of Slavery

Author:Frederick Douglass

“It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.”

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

“The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.”

“Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.”

Thinking Slavery Blind Employment Employed Nerdiness

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.”

“I would rather be a rebel than a slave.”

Slavery Slave Rebel Rebellious Independent Women Suffragettes Suffragists

Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.”

Development Capitalism Method Slavery Gentleman Refinement Feudalism

Author:Kwame Nkrumah

“Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.”

Men Wells I Can Pain Black White Arms Bed Slavery Embrace Hug White Man Black Women

Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.”

Slavery Slave Be A Slave

Author:H. Rap Brown

“I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.”

People Ifs Hate I Hate Slavery Technique

Author:Immortal Technique

“Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.”

Knows Men Heart Slavery Lips Deny Every Man Curse Libel

Book:American Slavery As It Was - The Background Of Twelve Years A Slave

Source: American Slavery As It Was - The Background Of Twelve Years A Slave

“I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.”

Needs Prove Slavery Servitude Scientism

Book:Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi

Source: Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi

“We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.”

May Judging Slavery

Book:Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi

Source: Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi

“True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.”

War Peace Slavery Occasions Permanent

Author:Gerrit Smith

“When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.”

Men Feels Home Slavery Doctrine Reasoning Good Man New Thought Miscellaneous Advocacy New Home

Book:Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi

Source: Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi

“I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.”

Organization Slavery Anti Slavery

Author:Gerrit Smith

“The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.”

People Want America Slavery Embrace Slave Scary Islamic Captured

Author:Pat Robertson

“Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.”

Should Firsts Order Steps Civilization Slavery Expenses First Steps Better Off

Author:Alexander Herzen

“The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.”

Relation Slavery Property Slave Private Property Abolish

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

“The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want peace; if one of them insists on using force to oblige the other to work for him and serve him, then the other, if he wishes to retain his dignity as a man and not be reduced to abject slavery, will be obliged in spite of his love of peace, to resist force with adequate means.”

People Ifs Men Want May Mean Two Seems Force Wish Dignity Slavery Spite Embarrassing His Love Adequate Obliged Few Words Adequate Means

Author:Errico Malatesta

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