Quotes about chattel (5 Quotes)


    Among the goods of every kind the eldest shall take the best , article , and , even a single chattel which is particularly good, as well as the best of ten , animals .

    Do you think that the Battle Hymn of the Republic
    Would have been heard if the chattel slave
    Had crowned the dominant dollar,
    In spite of Whitney's cotton gin,
    And steam and rolling mills and iron
    And telegraphs and white free labor?


    Free agency can be traced back to the 1980s, when corporate America sought to trim the fat by casting off its work force en masse, says Pink. Those jettisoned were left to find work for themselves those lucky enough to keep their jobs were left to worry if they'd be next. Amidst it all, the bond between worker and employer weakened as people realized they were so much unappreciated chattel. People's expectations from corporate America have waned, ... People want money and meaning from work.

    The family is the basic cell of government it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.




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