{"quotes":[{"text":"Who ain't a slave? Tell me that... I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way—either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.","author":"Herman Melville","tags":["slaves","suffering"],"id":19631,"author_id":"Herman+Melville"},{"text":"Go back to bed, Cowan. I want no promises from you.","author":"Sandi Layne","tags":["historical-fiction","ireland","norway","slaves","vikings"],"id":58138,"author_id":"Sandi+Layne"},{"text":"If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty. Heresy should be trodden out beneath the bigot's brutal feet. Husbands should divorce their wives at will, and make the mothers of their children houseless and weeping wanderers. Polygamy ought to be practiced; women should become slaves; we should buy the sons and daughters of the heathen and make them bondmen and bondwomen forever. We should sell our own flesh and blood, and have the right to kill our slaves. Men and women should be stoned to death for laboring on the seventh day. 'Mediums,' such as have familiar spirits, should be burned with fire. Every vestige of mental liberty should be destroyed, and reason's holy torch extinguished in the martyr's blood.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["bible","bigot","brutal","burning","christianity","civilization","crime","death-penalty","divorce","forever","heathen","heresy","holy","husbands","inspired","judaism","kill","liberty","martyr","mental","mistake","mothers","murder","pentateuch","politics","polygamy","sabbath","sell","slaves","spirits","stoning","the-bible","torth","wander","weeping"],"id":64294,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"And what does it amount to?' said Satan, with his evil chuckle. 'Nothing at all. You gain nothing; you always come out where you went in. For a million years the race has gone on monotonously propagating itself and monotonously reperforming this dull nonsense--to what end? No wisdom can guess! Who gets a profit out of it? Nobody but a parcel of usurping little monarchs and nobilities who despise you; would feel defiled if you touched them; would shut the door in your face if you proposed to call; whom you slave for, fight for, die for, and are not ashamed of it, but proud; whose existence is a perpetual insult to you and you are afraid to resent it; who are mendicants supported by your alms, yet assume toward you the airs of benefactor toward beggar; who address you in the language of master to slave, and are answered in the language of slave to master; who are worshiped by you with your mouth, while in your heart--if you have one--you despise yourselves for it. The first man was a hypocrite and a coward, qualities which have not yet failed in his line; it is the foundation upon which all civilizations have been built.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["civilization","cowardice","existence","hypocrisy","masters","monarchs","slaves"],"id":65986,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["deception","employment","illusion","salary","slavery","slaves"],"id":70691,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'?","author":"James Weldon Johnson","tags":["black","james-weldon-johnson","poet","poetry","short","slaves","songs"],"id":115206,"author_id":"James+Weldon+Johnson"},{"text":"If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?","author":"Mary Astell","tags":["disrespect","equality","feminism","free","freedom","inequality","men","opression","slaves","women"],"id":124108,"author_id":"Mary+Astell"},{"text":"Man cannot be reduced to slavery if he is not distorted first. The politician and the priest have been in a deep conspiracy down the ages. They have been reducing humanity to a crowd of slaves. They are destroying every possibility of rebellion in man—and love is rebellion, because love listens only to the heart and does not care a bit about anything else.","author":"Osho","tags":["conspiracy","distortion","love","politician","priest","rebellion","slavery","slaves"],"id":132772,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.","author":"Karen Marie Moning","tags":["human","road-maps","slaves"],"id":148715,"author_id":"Karen+Marie+Moning"},{"text":"Prosperity is always built on slave labor. Ask any Ameri-can't. Or Bulgari-can. Yes, we can, eat from a trash can...","author":"Will Advise","tags":["america","building","bulgaria","labor","obama","prosperity","slave","slaves","trash-can"],"id":159442,"author_id":"Will+Advise"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}