Zitat des Tages über Sklave / Slave:
The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
Throughout my life, I have tried to share my belief that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. My life is not about deprivation; I don't diet or slave away in a gym. What I do is eat clean, nutritious, real food. I enjoy delicious meals with healthy fats, I eat until I am full and satisfied, and I remain thin.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
The set of '12 Years a Slave' was an extremely joyous one! We all recognized that we were making a powerful, necessary and beautiful film, and we weren't about doing it without that sense of responsibility, and we recognized that we needed each other to tell this story. We also knew we needed to hold each other up as we told the story.
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.
The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, 'If I was a slave, I wouldn't have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.' And it's like, sure, it's a very easy thing to say.
I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.
If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.
I've always been a slave to my heart.
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a beautiful forward movement in that direction with McQueen telling '12 Years A Slave,' with Coogler telling 'Fruitvale,' and with Daniels telling 'The Butler.'
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
