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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. Frederick Douglass

Man Free Bay Eastern Born Free Man Could Toward Look Shore Where Across Slave

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. Helen Keller

King Ancestors Had His Who Among Slave

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. James Connolly

Society Female Worker Capitalist Capitalist Society Slave

The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time. Jeremy Corbyn

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? Johann Georg Hamann

Good Home Freedom Me Am Festive Garment Slave

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. John Stuart Mill

Word Wife Sense Same Full Slave

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. Margaret Sanger

Free Born Mothers Cannot Race Slave

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave. Paul Robeson

Time Mother Father Own State Ancestors Delaware Born Crossed My Own Troops Quaker Baked George Bread Your Washington Slave

The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner. Saint Teresa of Avila

God Saying Prayer Words Mind First Nothing Christian Suitable Caring Address Simply Almighty Freely Him First Thing Frequent Learnt God Almighty Repetition May The First Thing Being Cannot Whether Custom Manner Grant Speaking Rote Thing Slave

My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children. Saint Teresa of Avila

Great Man Charity Compassion Father Own Sick Once Brothers Could Tenderness Never He Towards House Also Him His Pitied Being Children Them Poor Much Persuaded Keep Servants Belonging Slave Treated Slaves

Be not a slave of words. Thomas Carlyle

Communication Words Slave

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment. W. E. B. Du Bois

Constitution Word Before Carefully States Negroes Constitution Of The United States Fellows Although Referred Amendment Avoided United United States Slave

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization? William Wilberforce

Degree Country Our Must Carrying Would Small Civilization Civilized Vast Suppose Trade Does Very Any Africa Should Naturally Help Utterly Extent Slave Consequence

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Abraham Lincoln

Hope Best Freedom Free Giving Lose Assure Honorable Earth Alike Give Shall Nobly Last Slave Preserve Save

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself. Alice Oswald

Work You Yourself Human Being Master Think Relaxing Easiest Slip Seems Structure Mentality Simplest Most Human Being Either Slave

The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade. Andrew Mwenda

Poverty First Christian Late Claimed Seeking Attempt Missionaries Trade Led Western End Itself Disease Africa Century Who Slave Save

The shooter's choice of Emanuel AME was most likely deliberate, given the church's storied history. It was the first African Methodist Episcopal church in the South, founded in 1818 by a group of men including Morris Brown, a prominent pastor, and Denmark Vesey, who would go on to lead a large, yet failed, slave revolt in Charleston. Anthea Butler

History Church Men First Group Prominent Would Charleston Brown Deliberate Given Lead Morris Failed Most Likely Go Methodist South Denmark Pastor Revolt Shooter African Episcopal Choice Who Large Including Founded Slave

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. Aristotle

Nature Enough Apprehend He Another Reason Who Therefore Slave

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom. Arthur Middleton

Life Death God Needs Freedom Christ Took Possessed Find Obedient Only Priest True True Freedom Himself Became Witnessing Human Form Human Needs Lives Utterly Serving Slave

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. Arthur Rimbaud

You Parents Own Misfortune Am Caused Baptism Your Slave

I didn't know that '12 Years a Slave' was being filmed at the same time we were making 'The Retrieval.' Ashton Sanders

Time Know Making Were Years Same Same Time Being Slave

We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a beautiful forward movement in that direction with McQueen telling '12 Years A Slave,' with Coogler telling 'Fruitvale,' and with Daniels telling 'The Butler.' Ava DuVernay

Beautiful Needs Diversity Own Think Telling Direction Know Years Movement Stories McQueen Storytellers Forward Butler Slave

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