#slaves

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#bound #class #everywhere #laborers #miserable

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#been #colonial #cut #had #importation

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#appear #cannot #consideration #done #far

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

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#i #jews #lincoln #moses #neurotics

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

If we are not represented, we are slaves. ↗

— James Otis

#slaves