#slave

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

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

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#book #comic #comic book #compilation #day

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate: only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty! You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure! Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world . . . ↗

— Charles Chaplin

#heart #humanity #liberty #love #machines

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#i #know #out #slave #things

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#bay #born #could #eastern #free

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#being #first #fugitive #had #i

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. ↗