#slave

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves. ↗

— Abdullah Ibrahim

#among #healers #into #made #people

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it. ↗

— David Icke

#behavior #believe #collective #developed #force

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#animal #badly #beyond #cousins #creation

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#cotton #head #i #like #minds

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#boisterous #children #commerce #degrading #despotism

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#educational #gradations #methods #parents #selfishness

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us. ↗

— Michael Johnson

#believe #benefited #descendants #difficult #gene

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. ↗

— Alan Kay

#brute #brute force #done #each #egyptian

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it. ↗

— John B. Keane

#deserve #dressed #drink #freed #go

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#aristocracy #bloated #cheap #china #despair