Quotes About Slavery

Slavery made America a slave to black history. As much as white America invented us, the nation can never be free of us now. America doesn't even exist without us. That's why Barack Obama was so offensive, so scary to white America. America shudders and says to itself: The president's supposed to be us, not them. In that light, Donald Trump's victory was hardly surprising.

Slavery casts a long shadow across our lives. The spoils we reaped from forcing people to work without wages and treating them with grievous inhumanity continue to haunt us in a racial gulf that seems impossible to overcome.

There is no such thing as "people power" (democracy). The world is run by oligarchs for oligarchs. You have all been conned. You are all slaves of capitalism. You are ruled by a psychopathic elite just as your ancestors were. Nothing has changed, except the tactics of the elite. The weak, passive, submissive masses still go on being ruled by an elite few. They love it!

the English colonies in North America accounted for only a tiny fraction of the hideous traffic in human beings. David Brion Davis, in his magisterial 2006 history Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, concludes that colonial North America 'surprisingly received only 5 to 6 percent of the African slaves shipped across the Atlantic.' Hugh Thomas in The Slave Trade calculates the percentage as slightly lower, at 4.4 percent.

I don't really understand it. Never have. The more I think on it the more it horrifies me. How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible?

Starting with religion, as the British historian Hugh Thomas noted in his monumental study The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440–1870, "There is no record in the seventeenth century of any preacher who, in any sermon, whether in the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux, or in a Presbyterian meeting house in Liverpool, condemned the trade in black slaves.

Once moral progress in a particular area is under way, most religions eventually get on board—as in the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century, women's rights in the twentieth century, and gay rights in the twenty-first century—but this often happens after a shamefully protracted lag time.

How is it possible that we should need money to live on a planet that we were born on? Like many others before me I realised that we are born into pure slavery.

If you are so worried that Roman culture will change, then stop living off the backs of your slaves, and start doing work for yourselves. Or perhaps you prefer to keep watching wagon trains of a thousand Gauls roll in. Perhaps you would rather condone the slave traders with their pretty Greeks. In which case, you will soon have a Rome in which no one is Roman. You can force them to speak Latin, to wear tunics and sandals, but blood will out.

French Caribbean island of Martinique, a tiny territory less than one-fourth the size of Long Island, imported more slaves than all the U.S. states combined.

And what will be their fate?" he asked. "Forgive me master, but I am curious to know, so that my heart may prepare itself." "Flesh without spirit," I said. "Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness, abundance without the power to enjoy it. The death of the spirit.

Lo, gold, lapis lazuli, silver, and turquoise, Carnelian, amethyst, ibht- stone and Are strung on the necks of female slaves. Noblewomen roam the land. Ladies say, "We want to eat!" Lo, noblewomen, Their bodies suffer in rags, Their hearts shrink from greeting [each other]. Lo, chests of ebony are smashed.

the incongruity of slaves waiting on the author of the Declaration of Independence.

The history of our country should not be written in the blood of slaves. It is an abomination.

a "brave new world of affluent depravity."44 Genovese sees it as ironic that the defeat of the South, of slav- ery, opened the doors to an imperialism that imposed "unprec- edented misery and mass slaughter on the world.

Three conditions are necessary for a slave society: private, concentrated landownership, sufficient development of commodity production and markets, and unavailability of an internal labor supply.

If the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries were, in many countries of the West, times of accelerating social power, and a corollary increase in freedom, peace, and material welfare, the twentieth century has been primarily an age in which State power has been catching up—with a consequent reversion to slavery, war, and destruction.43 In

War is Mass Murder, Conscription is Slavery, Taxation is Robbery.

Philosophy even turns a robot and an animal into a human. Using a child's question: Why? This is an elevator that shows slavery, below selfishness, below he knows the will that will turn him into a humane person.

We are in the womb of materialism, in a cocoon of the illusion of fear. Slaves are born.

Most of the leaders are still haunted by the nightmares of slavery, mostly mental colonisation in general.

My deepest thanks goes to technology for ending slavery and bringing gender equality, between men and women, within our society.

The impact of colonization caused the delay in the evolution of mankind. The mental capacity of man has been reduced to that of animals. So let's break this mental slavery and the decolonization of the Will.

There is no benefit to be only physically independent when the mind is still not liberated from mental slavery.