#slave

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. ↗

— William Drummond

#cannot #dares #fool #reason #slave

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free. ↗

— John Dryden

#free #slaves #wholly

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#anything #before #being #ever #genealogy

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#remember #slave #works #you #your

Socialism means slavery. ↗

— Lord Acton

#slavery #socialism

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#fight #intellectually #life #must #reaction

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#brothers #build #captive #chains #constitution

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#ancestry #emotional #feel #get #i

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America. ↗

— Herman Cain

#africa #america #ancestors #back #black

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#control #country #disappears #enabled #england