Quotes About Human Enslavement

#1. 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

#2. Religion, the dominion of the human mind;
Property, the dominion of human needs; and
Government, the dominion of human conduct,
represent the stronghold of man's enslavement
and all the horrors it entails.

Emma Goldman

#3. An intimate walk with the Lord also appears to have the following benefits in relation to other team members: It makes one lovable, it makes one trustworthy and reliable, and it provides an attitude of encouragement.

J. Payne

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

Tony Campolo

#5. But the fact that judges follow precedent regularly even though not invariably does not support the legalistic theory as strongly as one might expect. The original precedent in a line of precedents could not have been based on precedent.

Richard A. Posner

#6. I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.

Darren Star

#7. He broke her heart and made her crave his touch even while she was trying to figure out where to hide his body.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. 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

#9. Silence is the language of the cosmos. From the smallest stone to the sun itself, they all communicate through silence, greatly rich with meaning and deep, very deep. In order to understand it, we need to have a special mind.

Anu Lal

#10. The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

Mikhail Bakunin

#11. We were born to imagine.

Jessie Burton

#12. 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

Adam McKay

#13. Elves are cool, man.

Orlando Bloom

#14. Don't you know that nobody can make you be shit? You can only let it happen.

Juxian Tang

#15. The kind of women I'm interested in - they're smart enough.

Penn Dayton Badgley

#16. 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

#17. It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

Denis Waitley

#18. I was sophisticated enough to know that the written word is no mirror of the writer's character, that the amateur, though a selfless angel, may show himself a pompous ass, while the professional, a monster of ego, can convince you in a phrase that he has the innocence of a child. I

Louis Auchincloss

#19. That was Jolene, cleaning up even when life was falling apart.

Kristin Hannah

#20. Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.

Tim Wise

#21. Our choices define us: The stars may set us on a given path, but it is we who must decide whether we take it.

Romina Russell

#22. Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.

Ariel Garten

#23. The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Richard Flanagan