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“Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.”

Nations Bits Violence Modern Slavery Unions Fruit China Genocide Soviet Capitalist Exploitation Soviet Union Mao Abhorrent

Author:Terry Eagleton

“You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.”

“The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.”

Knows Doe Dream Stupid Masters Labor Slavery Slave Fruit Dumb American Dream Ants Nests Robbers Crumbs Wronged Upward Mobility

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.”

Ifs Mean Interest India Slavery Fruit Violent Cease Disguise

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.”

“Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.”

Way Labor Slavery Slave Fruit Denied Theft Laborers

Author:Eric Foner

“This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.”

Real Dream Past Enemy Air Slavery Fruit Redemption Paradise Subtle Cosmic Exile Unreal Improbable Future Dreams Uprooting

Book:If this is a Man: Remembering Auschwitz

Source: If this is a Man: Remembering Auschwitz

“If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.”

Ifs America Growth Flower Spring Fairs Slavery Fruit Seeds Poison Soil Thrive Weed Marijuana Blast Germs Stifling Withering

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader