As legal slavery passed we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
In a typical history book black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
Wealth is a tool of freedom but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
One person may need (or want) more leisure another more work one more adventure another more security and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country indeed a state a city a church or a family healthy. 'One-size-fits-all ' and that size determined by the State has a name and that name is 'slavery.'
The breakdown of the black community in order to maintain slavery began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
If Liberia has failed then it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
Although we have in theory abolished human slavery recognized women's rights and stopped child labor we continue to enslave other species who if we simply pay attention show quite clearly that they experience parental love pain and the desire for freedom just as we do.