Quotes with anti-slavery

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  • Assata Shakur People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the whites only signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Seneca A great fortune is a great slavery.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Huey Newton Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.
    Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Booker T. Washington Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
    An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bell Hooks Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bryan Burrough 'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Smith A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Epictetus A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Wyndham Lewis All orthodox opinion - that is, today, ''revolutionary'' opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Alexander Herzen All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Malcolm X America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Pat Buchanan Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Any weak fool can be vicious. To be virtuous you must be a man; to be virtuous is to be truly free; vice is the real slavery.
    The Use of Life
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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