Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the Capitol. The voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom and equality, and the rattling of the poor slave's chains, almost commingled. A slave pen within the very shadow of the Capitol! Solomon Northup
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
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Ivan Illich
So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.
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Seth GrahameSmith
Sometimes you got to lie on the outside to keep your voice loud on the inside. We don’t owe the master the truth. He owes us. Nothing comes from the master. He is the thief in the night. He steals it all. And every time...
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Jonathan Odell
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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Vernor Vinge
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Frederick Douglass
More Quotes By Solomon Northup
At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him...
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that...
The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.
The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies... Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?
There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet.. . there's a day coming that will burn as an oven. It may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a...
