Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively, but never immediately revolutionarily outside the central matter of his own mission and person...The main scandal of Jesus' career is properly JESUS - not Jesus and feminism, or Jesus and the abolition of slavery, or Jesus and Jewish emancipation, or Jesus and anything else. Those other causes are good, and they are implicit in Jesus' ministry. But they are incipient at best, and Jesus' accommodation to these various social distinctions needs to be acknowledged and then accounted for in one's paradigm regarding gender.
John G. Stackhouse Jr.Tags: feminism jesus slavery egalitarianism complementarianism
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain,
Ntozake ShangeTags: oppression slavery african-american-history
A freedom-fighter is a slave to freedom.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: freedom slavery fighter freedom-fighter
The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till a big old smile busted out from beneath 'em all, and his grey eyes fairly glowed. It was the first time I ever saw him smile free. A true smile. It was like looking at the face of God. And I knowed then, for the first time, that him being the person to lead the colored to freedom weren't no lunacy. It was something he knowed true inside him. I saw it clear for the first time. I knowed then, too, that he knowed what I was - from the very first.
James McBrideTags: beauty humanity peace god slavery
Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: loss consumerism materialism slavery ownership
Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: work slavery employment employees job
A sensible speaker is a slave to making sense.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: sense slavery nonsense speaker
I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.
Lucy N. ColmanTags: equality belief atheist creed foolishness slavery
Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: nature environment slavery prosperity degradation humiliation climate-change
Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a genuinely good person, whose soft heart pitied even Satan, but who had no doubt about the legitimacy of slavery, because in years of living in antebellum Missouri she had never heard any sermon opposing slavery, but only countless sermons preaching that slavery was God's will. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergTags: morality ethics superstition slavery frederick-douglass mark-twain
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