Slave Quotes - Page 40

• I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant it to be that way, but that's what, that's the movie that they made - whether they meant to make it or not.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Kings, Mean, Way

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• ...How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. ( A serf paid only 25% of his earnings to his feudal lord. How much income tax do you pay?) Don't kid yourselves, we're slaves. Slaves with weekends off.

  Kenneth W. Royce

  Country, Kids, Weekend

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• When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.

  Jud Wilhite

  Want, Steps, Straws

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• In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.

  Rafael Cruz

  Socialist Government, Alliances, Taxation

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Names, White

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. June 5, 2016.

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• Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.

  John Shelby Spong

  Kings, People, Church

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat their slaves. "Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, be kind to yourslaves." Paul was in favor of a kinder and gentler slavery; it never occurred to him to raise the question about whether slavery itself was immoral.

  John Shelby Spong

  People, Slavery, Addresses

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I find it fascinating that Paul [the apostol], writing to the Galatians, responds to the question, "What does it mean to live in Christ?" by saying, "There is no longer Jew or Greek,
  there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Mean, Writing

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people of this world. These 80 percent live on the biodiversity and the knowledge they have evolved as part of a rich collective heritage involving the use of seeds for growing crops and medicinal plants for healing.

  Vandana Shiva

  Healing, People, Survival

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

  James Hillman

  Leisure, Economics, Drivers

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.

  Joe Arpaio

  Political, Campaigns, Trump

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.politico.com. January 26, 2015.

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• People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Slave Owners, People, Racist

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Cows that are fed organic food are still kept as slaves on farms, regardless of whether it is a large corporate factory farm or a small family farm. Besides, every dairy cow, no matter what she has been fed, has her babies stolen from her shortly after birth and she will inevitably end up in the slaughterhouse.

  Sharon Gannon

  Baby, Cows, Matter

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Farms, whether small or large, are places where slaves are kept. The animals are fattened up to be eaten, or exploited for their ability to make honey or milk, or for their fur, wool or body parts; they are kept as breeders to produce more animals who can in turn be exploited and ultimately sold, slaughtered, and eaten.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Wool, Fur

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.

  Jen Lilley

  World, Today, Facts

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• Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less in tune with the bigger picture: our deepest sense of purpose.

  Romany Malco

  Tunes, Purpose, Debt

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?

  Gillian Anderson

  Country, Sex, Children

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever brutalized, and yet he apologizes to his family for his long absence. That was such a profoundly moving moment capturing the triumph of dignity over the disgraceful behavior of those involved in the slave trade.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Moving, Taken, Home

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know under what terms - but, for a large section of the old slave plantation. He established himself - sisters and brothers, cousins, etc. on fifty- and sixty-acre plots.

  Ella Baker

  Cousin, Brother, Grandfather

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and everyone.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Inspiration, Artist, Everyday

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, People, Dramatic

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Resistance, Obedience, Distinction

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

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• The left can't wait to condemn this country. The left can't wait to tell stories of how we have, I don't know, just made messes of things, as their justification for chopping us down to size and for disqualifying us superpower status. We haven't earned it. We've built our nation on the backs of slaves and other discrimination and so forth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Waiting, Stories

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

  Chinua Achebe

  Writing, Traders, Slave Trade

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• Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

  Chinua Achebe

  Trading, Bedfellows

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