#slave

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? ↗

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#around #been #call #comes #culture

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#earth #first #god #heaven #long

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#slavery #state #then #turn

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#faith #fatal #immediately #instrument #interests

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#allow #america #black #career #celluloid

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#ceaselessly #drunk #drunken #escape #hour

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#more #slave #than #think #who

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#man #slavery #upon #will

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. ↗