Chattel Quotes

#1. Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.

Timothy Keller

#2. Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

Hector Hugh Munro

#3. Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

Frederick Douglass

#4. Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

John Bercow

#5. Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

Jeanne Phillips

#6. Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel, historically, for thousands of years and still today.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible, and there were still laws on the books that made it alright for men to beat their wives, as long as it was within certain limits, and women were chattel.

Gloria Steinem

#8. Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my home - it is not much,
I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter. But more than these, I have something very few women can claim: my freedom.
I will not lightly surrender it.

Geraldine Brooks

#9. While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal
the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have
nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,
is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Horace Greeley

#10. Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Ayn Rand

#11. But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to the great importance of cattle in primitive times, but to the importance of the notion of sale or barter in generating the institution of property.

Edward Jenks

#12. The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

Gloria Steinem

#13. At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

Bernard Bailyn

#14. Their chattel status continues in their loss of name, their obligation to adopt the husband's domicile, and the general legal assumption that marriage involves an exchange of the female's domestic service and (sexual) consortium in return for financial support.31

Kate Millett

#15. Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so
that is to say, as free as man.

Elbert Hubbard

#16. The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#17. Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

Jeffrey Kluger

#18. Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.

Garth Stein

#19. 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.

Joy DeGruy

#20. Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at
least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after chattel slavery was
ended. It simply underlines the fact that consciously or unconsciously, weak
humans desire the status of sheep, no matter what they say.

Tom Metzger

#21. Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#22. Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

John Updike

#23. To many, peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. To some - especially those from regions involved in conflict - peacekeeping and efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in bringing prosperity and hope for the future.

Kim Yuna

#24. I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned out, had upset a lot of people.

Tom Barbash

#25. I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#26. The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

Dan Savage

#27. No one will ever admire you for being someone else.

Kim Dallmeier

#28. This sky, Sid.It's the sky of the great epics.The great Polish epics. Of Pan Tadeusz

Esi Edugyan

#29. Let's face the music and dance.

Irving Berlin

#30. It's as clear as the balls on a tall dog.

Steven Tyler

#31. The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God.

Akiane Kramarik

#32. I didn't end up going bankrupt ... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.

Vanilla Ice

#33. pain can work form the outside in.

Jack Ketchum