#slaves

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.


Vernon Howard


#understand #whatever

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.


Douglas Hurd


#give #history #pleasure #provide #should

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.


Richard V. Allen


#children #clear #country #god #hands

To us, the high-resounding “isms” to which our contemporaries ask; us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success; if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.


Savitri Devi


#isms #slaves #equality

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.


Corrine Brown


#blood #confederacy #fight #give #large

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.


David Garrick


#freemen #slaves #worst

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.


Louis Leakey


#angola #any #badly #completely #illiterate

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.


Shirley MacLaine


#assistant #i #lot #make #me

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


Constance Baker Motley


#had #never #our #parents #slaves

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.


Tom G. Palmer


#census #females #first #free #head