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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.
Because of all our presidents, Barack Obama is the one most likely to be descended from a slave trader, since Kenya had a major slave-trading port, and the Muslims were heavily involved in the slave trade.
Supporting Spurs is a bit like being in the Labour Party. It's a labour of love, believe me. — © David Lammy
Supporting Spurs is a bit like being in the Labour Party. It's a labour of love, believe me.
Even before the expansion of slave labor in the South and into the West, slavery was already an important source of northern profit, as was the already exploding slave trade in the Caribbean and South America. Banks capitalized the slave trade, and insurance companies underwrote it.
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.
I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office.
Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
The Chinese countryside has become a slave labour camp and dumping ground for every imaginable pollutant. The rural peasantry is being sucked dry by corrupt government tax collectors.
Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy. — © Ludwig von Mises
Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.
The Parliamentary Labour Party is a crucial and very important part of the Labour party, but it is not the entirety of the Labour Party.
Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.
The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.
I ultimately joined the Labour Party and became an MP because the country and my constituents deserve a Labour government.
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.
We will renew our party, to rebuild our land - and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour.
After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent states in West Africa, and subsequently set Africa up for the Western slave trade and the Arabs were in the slave trade before Islam and they are still in the slave trade.
And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.
A lot of Labour people are telling me Labour is in poor shape.
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.
Many governments and corporations take no moral responsibility for the enslavement of migrant workers and freely do business with states built on the back of slave labour. Illicit financial flows and tax evasion are ignored in the interests of some nations and their corporations, stripping the tax base that is so vital for essential services.
I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.
The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house. — © Malcolm X
The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.
Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time.
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.
Our supporters just want a Labour government. They want a Labour government that does what Labour governments are expected to do. They expect a Labour government to provide them, their families and their communities with the support and security they need, especially in difficult times.
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.
I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.
If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we'll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world would allow us to bring out.
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. — © Abraham Lincoln
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.
It is absolutely clear that your continued leadership is putting the Labour Party's future in jeopardy and denying millions of people in our country who so desperately need representation by a Labour government the chance of that Labour government.
If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.
All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.
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