#slave

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#had #never #our #parents #slaves

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#become #enslave #enslaved #freer #men

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is. ↗

— James Otis

#day #dying #faculties #given #god

If we are not represented, we are slaves. ↗

— James Otis

#slaves

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#aggressiveness #already #challenge #different #dominion

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ↗

— Plato

#arises #democracy #dictatorship #extreme #form

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. ↗

— Plato

#man #memory #mix #ought #pursued

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#free #him #slave #someone #waits

I'm nothing more than a sports slave. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#more #nothing #slave #sports #than

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #bible #bunch #encounter #first