Enslavement Quotes - Page 4

• Enslavement is when one person completely controls another person, uses violence or violent threats to maintain that control, exploits them economically, and pays them effectively nothing. Trafficking in persons is a process of enslaving someone.

  Julia Ormond

  Use, Pay, Violence

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• I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Destiny, Light, Essence

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to be bought and sold. This was something nobody expected to see in Iraq.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Isis, Cities, Iraq

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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• While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Korea, States

  Source: chomsky.info

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• If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.

  Maya Angelou

  Cutting, Class, Support

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much America was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how the resistance of blacks to that enslavement has been the spark plug for so many important developments.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Ideas, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

  Alice Walker

  Confused, Greed, Humanity

  Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.9, The New Press

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• My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Memories, Blood, People

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• Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Form, Liberation, Destined

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.45, Weiser Books

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• It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings were incapable of being just to each other, and I believe this same rule holds with regard to the injustice practiced by men towards women. So long as all men conspire to rob women of the citizen's right to perfect equality in all the privileges and immunities of our so-called "free" government, we can not expect these same men to be capable of perfect justice to each other.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Believe, Equality, Men

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• War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  War, Mean, Resistance

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• We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

  Pope Francis

  Peace, Freedom, Men

  "Pope Francis declares holy war on terror in Vatican Easter Mass service" by Louie Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. April 5, 2015.

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• The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how the resistance of blacks to that enslavement has been the spark plug for so many important developments.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Destiny, Men, Choices

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.863, Pan Macmillan

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• The most disgusting, appalling horror of our world that we live in, to me, is sex trafficking and the enslavement of men and women, boys and girls, in the sex industry. That is the most horrific, horrific thing that's happening and it's happening in all of our towns here in Los Angeles, in New York, in London, in Paris, all over the world, and I think that's really what has to be addressed.

  Taylor Hackford

  Girl, Sex, New York

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.

  Michael Foley

  Issues, Compelling Reason, Strategy

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• There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings on the part of God. Sin is dividedness, a state of deficiency, incompleteness, dissociation, enslavement, hatred, but it is not disobedience and not formal violation of the will of God.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Hatred, Sin, Crime

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• Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Description, Subjects, Objects

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• If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

  Tony Campolo

  World, Care, Being Human

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• Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Community, Fundamentals, May

  Voltairine De Cleyre (1989). “Anarchism and American Traditions”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Men, Land, Feet

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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• In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of registering and controlling them in the form of an organized public supervision of their labor, slavery is already afoot. When slavery shall succeed it will succeed through the acquiescence of those who will be enslaved, for they will prefer sufficiency and security with enslavement, to freedom, responsibility, insecurity and the threat of insufficiency.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (2009). “Essays of a Catholic”, p.13, TAN Books

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• Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.

  Gerald Celente

  Two, Evil, Voting

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• The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

  Simone Weil

  Civilization, Bureaucracy, Specialization

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• Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

  Madame de Stael

  Russia, Race, Civilization

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