Well?

[bv3]

I don't want to go back and become a serf, myself.

I'm all about it. I recently bought a scythe. Going to plant some taters soon, too, in some city park or somethin'.

Jokes aside Mr. Douglass is the man.

[bv3]

In the early part of the year 1838, I became quite restless. I could see no reason why I should, at the end of each week, pour the reward of my toil into the purse of my master. When I carried to him my weekly wages, he would, after counting the money, look me in the face with a robber-like fierceness, and ask, “Is this all?” He was satisfied with nothing less than the last cent. He would, however, when I made him six dollars, sometimes give me six cents, to encourage me. It had the opposite effect. I regarded it as a sort of admission of my right to the whole. The fact that he gave me any part of my wages was proof, to my mind, that he believed me entitled to the whole of them. I always felt worse for having received any thing; for I feared that the giving me a few cents would ease his conscience, and make him feel himself to be a pretty honorable sort of robber. My discontent grew upon me. I was ever on the look-out for means of escape; and, finding no direct means, I determined to try to hire my time, with a view of getting money with which to make my escape. In the spring of 1838, when Master Thomas came to Baltimore to purchase his spring goods, I got an opportunity, and applied to him to allow me to hire my time. He unhesitatingly refused my request, and told me this was another stratagem by which to escape. He told me I could go nowhere but that he could get me; and that, in the event of my running away, he should spare no pains in his efforts to catch me. He exhorted me to content myself, and be obedient. He told me, if I would be happy, I must lay out no plans for the future. He said, if I behaved myself properly, he would take care of me. Indeed, he advised me to complete thoughtlessness of the future, and taught me to depend solely upon him for happiness. He seemed to see fully the pressing necessity of setting aside my intellectual nature, in order to contentment in slavery. But in spite of him, and even in spite of myself, I continued to think, and to think about the injustice of my enslavement, and the means of escape.

From the Narrative

[CCTelander]

Motivating posts. Who has ultimate sovereignty over your body?

Live free or die. Easy to put on a license plate and quite ironic, but almost impossible to live for the majority of us. Our soft lives promote our weakness. Our weakness may very well be our ruin.

They will have to install a muzzle on my corpse. How about you? Just be aware that many would prefer you to be a corpse. That’s the root of all control.

No slave muzzle for me. I will not comply.

[CCTelander]

Motivating posts. Who has ultimate sovereignty over your body?

Live free or die. Easy to put on a license plate and quite ironic, but almost impossible to live for the majority of us. Our soft lives promote our weakness. Our weakness may very well be our ruin.

They will have to install a muzzle on my corpse. How about you? Just be aware that many would prefer you to be a corpse. That’s the root of all control.

Neither government mandate nor corporate policy will be sufficient to compel me to wear a slave muzzle. Resist and defy.

[Anti Globalist]

Didn't BLM protesters recently tear down a statue of him?

[CCTelander]

Didn't BLM protesters recently tear down a statue of him?

I don't know, did they? It certainly wouldn't surprise me.

[Pauls' Revere]

Have we had enough? Or is it bend over and grab our ankles yet again?

They still have plenty of FRN stimulus lubricant left, to make it a pleasurable experience.

[CCTelander]

They still have plenty of FRN stimulus lubricant left, to make it a pleasurable experience.

ROTFL! + rep

[Anti Globalist]

I don't know, did they? It certainly wouldn't surprise me.

Yes. Happened during the 4th of July weekend.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/histo...ster-attacked/

[CCTelander]

Yes. Happened during the 4th of July weekend.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/histo...ster-attacked/

I'd call them dumbasses but it really isn't about racism or any of the other $#@! they claim. They're mainly trying to create chaos. They're sowing the wind, soon to reap the whirlwind, I think.

[CCTelander]

Bump

[CCTelander]

"No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free." - Buddha

[CCTelander]

"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves." - Frederick Douglass

[CCTelander]

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." - Thomas Jefferson

[PAF]

"No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free." - Buddha

"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves." - Frederick Douglass

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." - Thomas Jefferson

Awesome "liberty comes from within" bump.

[CCTelander]

"Everything can be taken from a man but… the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." - Victor Frankl

[CCTelander]

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." - Henry David Thoreau