Quotes About Enslaved

If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding.

they believed Africans were more industrious and less dangerous than enslaved people born into the revolutionary world of the Americas.

Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

Officially, 5 percent of southern slaves worked in industrial occupations. But the statistic understates the reality. It does not include artisans who worked on plantations making articles for use on that plantation, and thus ignores countless enslaved blacksmiths, masons, cabinetmakers, cordwainers, saddle-makers, plow-wrights, and other craftsmen.

People do not reject the gospel primarily because they're too thickheaded to get it. Unbelief grows out of other soils besides intellectual confusion. Instead, people reject the good news because they're enslaved to other kinds of news. They're in love with something unworthy of such devotion, and it won't let them go.

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Although Lord Dunmore, the governor of Virginia, was the only British official to promise emancipation, many enslaved people throughout the South assumed that if they offered their services to the British they would be set free. To some extent this was true.

The criticism of religion ends with the teaching that man is the highest essence for man – hence, with the categoric imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence, relations which cannot be better described than by the cry of a Frenchman when it was planned to introduce a tax on dogs: 'Poor dogs! They want to treat you as human beings!

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness.

Debts are the modern day chains that keep us enslaved.

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while Blacks were enslaved and were the assets of Whites.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

She was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.

I would have thought it was the sort of house a vampire lived in if I hadn't been aware that vampire stories were superstitious legends designed to subjugate the enslaved rural classes into unquestioning obedience of feudal autocracy.

There are two ways of being a prophet. One is to tell the enslaved that they can be free. It is the difficult path of Moses. The second is to tell those who think they are free that they are in fact enslaved. This is the even more difficult path of Jesus.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

Grant oversaw some enslaved people his wife had inherited. He disliked abolitionism, but he realized that slavery threatened to destroy the Union, which he wanted to save. Once he was in place as an officer in the Northern army, he devoted his energy to preserving the nation. Part of that devotion included an openness to using African American troops.

What, then, is the soul but a prisoner of your flesh? An undying yet constrained energy, bound and enslaved within a shuffling, steadily rotting suit of tissue and savage needs?

Sugar gave rise to the slave trade; now sugar has enslaved us.