Slavery Quotes - Page 23

• We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Adventure, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes you outwards. All your possessions will be outwards: your wife, your husband, your children, your body - your body is outside you; your mind - your mind is outside you. The only thing that is not outside you is the witnessing. Just the watchfulness - that is your buddha. Identification means losing witnessing, falling into the trap of attachment. That is our misery, that is our slavery.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Husband, Fall

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• I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Issues, One Day

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• No pope ever condemned slavery.

  Joseph McCabe

  Pope

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• The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.

  Ayn Rand

  Champion, Majority, Want

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.264, Penguin

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• As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery -- a bare living.

  Henry George

  Land, Use, Wages

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• As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Long, People

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• Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Republic, John Brown

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn”, p.198, Akashic Books

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• Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

  Gerry Spence

  Quests, Today, Way

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.36, Macmillan

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• When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Twilight, Heart

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

  Henry George

  Slave Owners, Special, Aristocracy

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Fighting, People, Vision

  "2008 Commencement Address by Barbara Kingsolver". today.duke.edu. May 11, 2008.

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• You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

  Mother Teresa

  Love Is, Useless, May

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.69, New World Library

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• A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.

  Granville Sharp

  Inhumanity, Toleration, Effects

  Granville Sharp (2014). “A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Real, Views, Broken

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or her work, while work should offer a service to people so they may have dignity. I ask my brothers and sisters in faith and all men and women of good will for a decisive choice to combat trafficking in persons, which includes "slave labor."

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Men, Slave Labor

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• Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by force, with effective projects and new approaches in order to protect their dignity, to improve the quality of their life and to face the challenges that are emerging from modern forms of persecution, oppression and slavery.

  Pope Francis

  Reality, Order, Leader

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• Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Success, Reflection, Games

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• I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill

  Kara Walker

  Knives, People, Southern

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• There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

  Angela Davis

  Ku Klux Klan, Police Violence, Justice

  "Angela Davis: 'There is an unbroken line of police violence in the US that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2014.

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• Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

  Walter E. Williams

  People, World, Moral

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• All of us are called to fight #‎ humantraffickin g and #‎ slavery .

  Pope Francis

  Fighting

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• A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Strong, Passion, Self

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• No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.

  David Platt

  Writing, Hands, Long

  David Platt (2015). “Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age”, p.124, Tyndale House

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• The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

  Banksy

  Differences, Lines

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