Quotes tagged ‘Slavery’

“Julliard has taken steps since Grey's post to heal the community, both Woetzel and Evan Yionoulis, dean and director of the drama division, asserted.”

— Pritha Paul, meaww.com

“Slavery is not a crime in almost half the countries in the world, a study of global laws said on Wednesday, urging nations to close legal loopholes that allow abusers to escape punishment.”

— Sonia Elks, news.trust.org

“I wish I could say that this all began with Donald Trump and will end with him, but it didn’t and I won’t. American history is not a fairy tale. The battle for the soul of the nation has been a constant push and pull for 243 years between the American ideal that says we’re all created equal and the…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“The reason is what we believe. The most powerful idea in the history of the world, I think beats in the heart of the people of this country. It beats in all of us. No matter your race, your ethnicity, no matter your gender identity, your sexual orientation, no matter your faith, it beats in the hear…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“My brothers, let's not forget the moment of sickness. Our thoughts interrupted by unfamiliar worships. We were merely arms and legs, moving to the directive of another mind. But in an instant the veil has lifted. And today, brothers, I stand here to declare your minds are now your own! Each and ever…”

— Moshe Diamant, John Hyams, Doug Magnuson, Jon Greenhalgh, Andrew Scott, Dolph Lundgren, imdb.com

“You pulled a whip on me? Are you out of your fucking mind? Let me tell you something - DON'T YOU EVER PULL A WHIP ON A BLACK MAN AGAIN!”

— Hossein Amini, Malik Brody, Kadeem Hardison, imdb.com

“[to Debbie] You have enslaved him. You have placed Fester under some strange sexual spell. I respect that. But please, may we see him?”

— Paul Rudnick, Morticia Addams, Anjelica Huston, imdb.com

“Ken: Why don’t more of them swim? Issa: Slavery.”

— Dayna Lynne North, Issa Dee, Issa Rae, imdb.com

“History is war and slavery and holding your dead son in your arms. There’s no point in protecting history, so we might as well just burn it all down.”

— Grainne Godfree, Rip Hunter, Arthur Darvill, imdb.com

“You want help? Fine. Let me tell you a story. 'Once upon a time, a man got fucked.' Now, how is that for a story? 'Cause that's the story of black people in America! Shit, you all don't know you black yet. You think you just people. Let me be the first to tell you that you are all black. The moment…”

— Maria Melnik, Mr. Nancy, Orlando Jones, imdb.com

“Rashid Bakr: This is what happens when a country refuses to address its history with slavery. White Student: We need to do here what they did in Germany. Everyone: What?! White Student: I meant educating kids about the nation’s horrible past part, not the concentration camp part.”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Rashid Bakr, Jeremy Tardy, imdb.com

“Slavery was always a good offer to a master.”

— Charles Murray, Luke Cage, Mike Colter, imdb.com

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”

— Frederick Douglass, udspace.udel.edu

“Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from e…”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I should be false to the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridic…”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnanimity.”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christia…”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of the slave…”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest…”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a t…”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com