If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.
Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.
When I get home and people ask me,'Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man? What are you? Some kind of war junkie? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you. And that's it. That's all it is.
The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been. . . to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.
Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.
So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost. . . free.