slavery

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

He slid his hands to the back of her neck, fumbling for the necklace__ clasp. He undid it and held the chain of rubies up, red and gold in the flickering candlelight. __o shackles for us,_ he said, __o matter how rich.

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane __xperiences_ which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That__ not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

Lincoln, Douglas and their contemporaries struggled to decide what the words __ll men are created equal_ really meant. Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln wrangled for 21 hours on seven stages. They made strategic choices and battled to gain support for different views of the future. Their powerful words changed and restricted each other. Lincoln and Douglas didn__ have answers; they had strong arguments.

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Look at meI am the life in a wastelandLook at meI am the slavery through the agesLook at meI am the mirror of the worldLook at meI am the illusion I__e fought forLook at meI__ still loving youand I keep being herefor you, for me,and for what__ worth breathing

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.

George, I know you__e tired. But President Lincoln, he didn__ free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves._-George__ Grandmother.

Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.

Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and consequence to any other incidence of human enslavement.

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buying ourselves and families out of slavery, rape and plunder...but everyone else has monuments, special museums, and even movies. This is what America thinks of black people, so-called black president and all, who has been largely silent on this subject...we'll even celebrate Leprechauns, Easter Bunnies, and Secretary's Day before we acknowledge our history.