The so-called modern education with all its defects however does others so much more good than it does the Negro because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Washington not Jefferson freed his slaves upon his death.
Had it not been for slavery the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death because they are greater than anything he finds in himself and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death!
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.