#enslaved

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It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.


Henryk Sienkiewicz


#dead #enslaved #exhausted #her #here

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.


Sophocles


#enslaved #free #mind #still

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

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.


Susan B. Anthony


#help #i #ignore #law #me

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.


Anacreon


#brings #brothers #cursed #enslaved #love

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.


Karel Capek


#enslaved #machine #machinery #man #never

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.


Bao Dai


#country #emperor #enslaved #i #independent

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.


Victor Hugo


#creator #enslaved #meter #our #poetry

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.


Sylvia Ashton-Warner


#am #children #enslaved #i #i am

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since.


Junot Díaz


#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú