Homer Quotes

I'm tired of being considered property.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man. Brethren, your oppressors aim to do this. They endeavor to make you as much like brutes as possible. When they have blinded the eyes of your mind-when they have embittered the sweet waters of the light which shines from the word of God-then, and not till then has American slavery done its perfect work.

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Patriotism ... for rulers is nothing else than a tool for achieving their power-hungry and money-hungry goals, and for the ruled it means renouncing their human dignity, reason, conscience, and slavish submission to those in power. ... Patriotism is slavery.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

Nursed and educated in the daily habit of seeing the degraded condition, both bodily and mental, of these unfortunate beings [slaves], few minds have yet doubted that they were as legitimate subjects of property as their horses or cattle

I make you a gift of these Blacks, of their children, their horses, their weapons, and all they possess. Share them among you.

Slaves no doubt, but still men.

There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.

… if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.