Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote. —Gary Steiner More about this quote Tags: humanity silence rights slavery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the next voyage of the Mayflower, after she carried the Pilgrims, she was employed in transporting a cargo of slaves from Africa. —Nathaniel Hawthorne More about this quote Tags: history USA slavery irony Mayflower Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: slavery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage. —Fraser Tyler More about this quote Tags: history apathy progress nations world faith liberty courage wealth slavery abundance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: history heart sorrow tears unhappiness slavery songs relief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I learned to believe in freedom, to glow when the word democracy was used, and to practice slavery from morning to night. I learned it the way all of my Southern people learn it: by closing door after door until one's mind and heart and conscience are blocked off from each other and from reality. —Lillian Smith More about this quote Tags: reality freedom democracy conscience slavery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who covets more is evermore a slave. —Robert Herrick More about this quote Tags: freedom slavery jealousy covetousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. —George Gurdjieff More about this quote Tags: freedom self-knowledge slavery self-governance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email