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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.


Martin Luther King, Jr.


#able #brotherhood #day #dream #former

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.


Albert Camus


#master #millions #people #signifies #slaves

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.


Susan Griffin


#economically #feel #female #force #had

This is the war where we change. This is the trickster war. It's where we disappear, just like they desire us disappear. I spoke it you before: They wish us blank," he said, gesturing without thinking at Dr. Trefusis, who was the nearest exemplar of the white race. "They want us with no history and no memory. They want us empty as paper so they can write on us, so we ain't nothing but a price and an owner's name and a list of tasks. And that's what we'll give them. We'll give them your Nothing. We'll give them my William Williams and Henry Henry. We'll slip through and we'll change to who we must needs be and I will be all sly and have my delightful picaresque japes. But at the end of it, when it's over, I shall be one thing. I shall be one man, fixed, and not have to take no other name. I shall be one person steadily for some years." "This is why we got to win...If we ever wish to be one person, we got to win.


M.T. Anderson


#slaves #change

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.


Henry David Thoreau


#freedom #liberty #obedience #protest #slave

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.


Winston Churchill


#out #slaves #slip #those #unsaid

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.


Sarah Vowell


#abraham lincoln #bought #freed #lincoln #lodge

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.


Mercy Otis Warren


#banish #domestic #general #independence #kind

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.


George Washington


#free #free men #hand #men #must

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.


John Woolman


#certainty #continent #cries #ears #favor