Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.

they ask for water we give them seathey ask for bread we give them seathey ask for life we give them only the sea

I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.

The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.

I cannot fail these girls by diverting my eyes from the invisible residue of slavery that clings to them like a shadow.

And oft the blessed time foretellsWhen all men shall be free;And musical, as silver bells,Their falling chains shall be.