Chattel Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. — Ayn Rand
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who was… — Kevin Carson
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… — Gloria Steinem
Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the… — Frederick Douglass
The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history.Â ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all… — James B. Weaver
Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart… — PZ Myers
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities… — Katha Pollitt
The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel… — Gloria Steinem
Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property. — John Bercow
The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel, historically, for thousands… — Frederick Lenz
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our… — Jeffrey Kluger
A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one… — Lysander Spooner
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of… — Horace Greeley
Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated… — Gary L. Francione
Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just. — Jeanne Phillips

Who Wrote These Chattel Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 Chattel Quotes as follows: