"The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Freedom Quotes #Essence Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.”
“When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.”

Source : "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.
“Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.”

Source : "A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia". Book by St. George Tucker, 1796.
“Are You Driving With Your Eyes Open? Or Are You like Using The Force?”
“America deserves a real discussion about real policy.”
“My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.”
“War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.”
“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.”

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