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The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific. Linda Colley

Power Revolution Relations Cost Only Colonies Rethink Also Forced Trade American Influenced Pacific Asia American Revolution Slave Slavery Britain

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave. Logan Pearsall Smith

Fashion He Himself Goes Against Who Slave

America, to me, is this enormous contrast between the heady idealism of founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson, who said, 'All men are created equal,' and the reality that he was himself a slave owner. Michael Portillo

Me Reality Men Enormous Thomas Fathers Thomas Jefferson He Between Idealism Heady Equal Himself Said Contrast America Owner Created Who Jefferson Founding Founding Fathers Slave

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one. Muhammad Ali

Beautiful People Free Master White Gave Back Clay Name Am African Anymore Anyone Chose Now Belong Slave

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it. Omar Sharif

What we are oftentimes reminding people of is the fact that the history of police in the U.S. was that they were slave patrols. They were quite literally created in order to capture enslaved Africans. Opal Tometi

History People Police Enslaved Fact Reminding Were Quite Oftentimes The History Of African Order Literally Created Capture Slave

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.' Paul Ryan

Freedom Commitment Equality Opportunity Free Giving Live Assure Honorable Our Alike Striving Has-Been Constant Give Abraham Abraham Lincoln He Perfection Principles Said Lincoln Been Up Story Meant Union Founding Slave Preserve

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me. Rick Perlstein

Me Fault Free Think Project States Through Between Talk Around Deal Built How Lines Huge America American Just Repress Them Fascinating Express Founded Slave

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. Robert Anton Wilson

Master Become Only Ideal Goal Your Enlightened Slave

People don't know that the very reason the police were made was to oversee slaves; they would be called overseers, and if a slave got out of line or tried to break away and escape, these were the people to hold them in and bring them back. Robert Glasper

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality. Sandra Oh

Fashion Individuality Exercising Slave

Many governments and corporations take no moral responsibility for the enslavement of migrant workers and freely do business with states built on the back of slave labour. Illicit financial flows and tax evasion are ignored in the interests of some nations and their corporations, stripping the tax base that is so vital for essential services. Sharan Burrow

Business Financial Responsibility Moral Responsibility Back Corporations States Enslavement Stripping Moral Vital Some Take Freely Built Governments Labour Essential Nations Tax Migrant Workers Interests Ignored Many Evasion Base Services Slave Flows

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education. Spike Lee

Education Art Class Old College Saved Security Checks She Years Graduate Taught Children Social Grandmother Social Security Lived Her Slave

Michael Fassbender is phenomenal in '12 Years a Slave.' Stana Katic

Years Michael Slave Phenomenal

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave. Stefan Molyneux

You Like Stop Want Acting Slave

As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, 'If I was a slave, I wouldn't have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.' And it's like, sure, it's a very easy thing to say. Sterling K. Brown

Time People Black Say Kid Neighborhood Out Would Easy Easy Thing About Something Putting Like Missouri Talked Sure Always Been Time People Up Very Heartbeat Louis St. Louis Any Growing Lived Growing Up Thing Slave Slavery

White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations. Steve Erickson

Memory Progress Black Made Collective White Down Believe Black Americans More Generations Genes Since Documents Passed Lore Years End Than American Whom Slave Slavery

The concept of a 'job' is pretty recent. If you go back a few hundred years, everyone was either a slave or a serf, or living off slave or serf labor to pursue science or philosophy or art. Steve Jurvetson

I think '12 Years a Slave' really helped me, as a person and as a student, to grow. Storm Reid

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