To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: education knowledge school ignorance slavery employment slaves education-system employees
Weekends are an employee’s parole.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: freedom slavery employment employees parole weekends
The Irish were poor, but not enslaved. He had come here to hack away at the ropes that held American slavery in place. Sometimes it withered him just to keep his mind steady. He was aware that the essence of proper intelligence was the embrace of contradiction. And the recognition of complexity was to be balanced against the need for simplicity. He was still a slave. Fugitive. If he returned to Boston he could be kidnapped at any time, taken south, strapped to a tree, whipped. His owners. They would make a spectacle of his fame. They had tried to silence him for many years already. No longer. He had been given a chance to speak out against what had held him in chains. And he would continue to do so until the links lay in pieces at his feet.
Colum McCannTag: ireland slavery frederick-douglass
His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.
Colum McCannTag: slavery frederick-douglass
Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things they see they judge of things very different which they have never seen, and they attribute to men a natural inclination to slavery, on account of the patience with which the slaves within their notice carry the yoke; not reflecting that it is with liberty as with innocence and virtue, the value of which is not known but by those who possess them, though the relish for them is lost with the things themselves. I know the charms of your country, said Brasidas to a satrap who was comparing the life of the Spartans with that of the Persepolites; but you can not know the pleasures of mine.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTag: liberty natural persia slavery dialogue comparison persian spartan sparta satrap
Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: money rich problems slavery poor
Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: money rich problems slavery solution poor
An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: art economics artists slavery patrons supply-and-demand
Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: freedom loss reputation slavery
Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: convention slavery employment employee employer self-employment working-hours
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