“Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?” WorldWealthBreakStruggleTakenRightsWillingDemandAmbitionSlaveWorkersGravesChainsHeightSubmissionCradleParasitesEconomic InequalityLabour Day Author:Joe Hill
“Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.” YearsFirstsHas BeensFeelingsCareChristianFormLawBeliefTakenAtheismChildhoodHabitOur ChildrenSlavePositive AtheismParisCustomsBentFalse Gods Author:Voltaire
“We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or any set of men take from us without our consent or that of our representatives one shilling in the pound we have not security for the remaining nineteen. We owe to our mother country the duty of subjects but will not pay her the submission of slaves.” IfsMenCountryMotherPayTakenSubjectsSecurityDutySlavePocketsPoundsSubmitRepresentativesConsentSubmissionNineteenMother Country Author:George Mason
“Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.” WayStoriesProblemStudyTakenGroupsSlaveContactIndianThinkerAmerican IndianWhitenessLead InFolktales Author:David Roediger