Showing posts with label slave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slave. Show all posts

Sunday, August 14, 2011

John Murray (1741 - 1815)


"To say to the slave who has not been emancipated 'Do not behave as a slave' is to mock his enslavement. But to say the same to the slave who has been set free is the necessary appeal to put into effect the privileges and rights of his liberation."
— John Murray

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)


A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson