"Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete……" — Kevin Carson

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• Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as… — Ayn Rand
• The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human… — Gloria Steinem
• Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle.… — Frederick Douglass
• The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by… — James B. Weaver
• Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field… — PZ Myers
• When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of… — Katha Pollitt
• The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married… — 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;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property,… — Frederick Lenz
• Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers,… — Jeffrey Kluger
• A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in… — Lysander Spooner

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