Modern world Quote by Paul Krugman

“considering these African people to be stamped from the beginning as a racially distinct people, as lower than themselves, and as lower in the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Virginia elites had taken the best land for themselves, leaving the former indentured servants land poor…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by…

— Jill Lepore

“That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given…

— Rosa Parks

There's an argument that private debt, in some way, is creating indentured servants in our country. But public debt does not do that. In…

— Sam Seder

“Being an employee was considered a form of bondage, only a step above indentured servitude.”

— John Curl

“In American History they’ve been studying how the United States was founded on indentured servitude. The teacher, Mr. Reed, said that in the seventeenth…

— Christina Baker Kline

I am a slave to your love. Well, more like indentured servant

— Anonymous

“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the use of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Taking out student loans for college is like indentured servitude. I'll be paying my way to freedom for the rest of my life.

— Anonymous

Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are…

— Sydney Brenner

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of…

— Jim Cooper

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses.

— Henry Giroux

I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks…

— Richard Rodriguez

Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In…

— Charles Lemert