In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
I am responsible for no one but myself.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
As I tell young people in workshops, 'It's your country. If you came here on the bottom of a slave ship, if your people came here seeking political freedom - however your folks got here - it belongs to you just as much as it belongs to anyone, so claim it. It's your birthright. America belongs to every person who is here.'
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?