Best slavery & names Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.”

Source: Enchiridion

“There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.”

Source: Revolution at the Gates: A Selection of Writings from February to October 1917

“It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.”

“If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.”

“Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell stalks abroad; - the lash resounds on the slave's naked sides; and the sick wretch, who can no longer earn the sour bread of unremitting labour, steals to a ditch to bid the world a long good night.”

“Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.”

People Stills Names History Mankind Expectations Slavery Ancient Enjoyed Sensible Senate Submit Assured Deceived Roman Empire Augustus

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.”

People Thinking Should Soul Problem Culture Names Black Consciousness Talking Identity Products Slavery Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Black People One Word

Author:KRS-One

“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth”

Moving Names Dark Kindness Mouths Slavery Ships Murderer

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.”

Christian Names Virtue Bears Female Mercy Abuse Slavery Slave Lust African American Tyrants Brutal Irresponsible African American Women

Book:Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

“We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.”

Stills Wisdom Names Civilization Slavery Slave Prostitution Be A Slave

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.”

People Ifs Want School Names Streets Slavery South Reconciliation

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.”

People Men Has Beens Hate Culture Names Left Black White Teaching Taught Walking Slavery Black People Muhammad Dead Man Brainwashed Elijah Walking Dead Elijah Muhammad

Author:Muhammad Ali

“So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.”

Made Problem Wanted Names Speak Language Teach Heard Taught Slavery Blind Islam Dumb Deaf Muhammad True Religion Elijah Elijah Muhammad Arabic Language

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.”

“The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.”

People Made Real Today Lasts America Names Given Taken Masters Slavery Slave Refuse Destroyed Acknowledge Rejects Forefathers

Author:Malcolm X

“One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'”

Want Needs May Persons Country States Names Church Cities Security Adventure Fit Healthy Diversity Slavery Size Determined Leisure One Size Fits All

Author:David Mamet

“I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!”

People Ifs Thinking Years Country Matter States Names Nations United Pay United States Twenties No Matter What Slavery Volunteer Drains Shameful Conscription Volunteer Service

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.”

Thinking Men Giving May Fighting Names Secret Blood Achievement Slavery Salvation One Man Honorable Boast Deceived Shameful Cloaks

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.”

Names Peace Differences Sweet Harmony Slavery

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.”

“Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say YES if they are political and juridical laws, imposed upon men by men.”

“I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.”

I Can Christian Names Liberty Millions Cry Victim Slavery Acknowledge Necks Tyrants Rejoice Goddess Bows Deities Crushed Lashes Groaning

Author:Thaddeus Stevens

“Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A tyrant does not make his tyranny possible. It is made by the people and not otherwise.”

People Ifs Doe Made Names Deserve Slavery Guilt Tyranny Permit Tyrants Exploitation Warmongers Regimentation

Author:Jack Parsons

“We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.”

Thinking Should Care Names Simple United Liberty Republican Slavery Unions Democrat Missions Champion Propagandist

Author:Horace Greeley

“In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.”

Humans Children Inspiration Young Purpose Motivation Three Names Human Beings Four Labor India Slavery Trade Organs Adoption Globes Camels

Author:Sunitha Krishnan

“And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

People Thinking Country Home Remember Names Christ Terrible Unique Horse Slavery Committed Deeds Justified Crow Crusades Inquisition Jim Crow Home Country

Author:Barack Obama

“The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.”

World Names Known Moral Class Effects Band Perception Slavery Aristocracy Conceded Slaveholders

Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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