#avery

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#another #called #establishment #fortune #gives

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can. ↗

— William H. Seward

#because #britain #consideration #due #european

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence. ↗

— Mark Shields

#agreements #broke #completely #consequence #eastern

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. ↗

— Philip Sidney

#bravery #danger #fuller #in the beginning #knight

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#judge #may #must #slavery #tell

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

#banks #continue #control #cost #create

All socialism involves slavery. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#slavery #socialism

Bravery never goes out of fashion. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#fashion #goes #never #out

Stardom can be a gilded slavery. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#slavery #stardom