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quotes by topic Slavery

" It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more. "

Barbara Ehrenreich

People , states , United , Slavery

" I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. "

Time , Question , Slavery , Protest

" The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received. "

Trade , states , Slavery

" I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people. "

People , Work , Slavery , Ancestry

" The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. "

Slavery , Credit , Modern

" Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. "

Freedom , Slavery , Lying

" I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery. "

Slavery , Stupid , Voting

" Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course. "

G. Edward Griffin

War , Slavery

" The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Slavery , Trying , Leader

" Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Faith , Slavery , Emotional

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