Jacque Fresco

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.

American Inventor

Alice Walker

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

American Author

Gerrit Smith

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

American Politician

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

English Poet

Joshua Cohen

The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

American Writer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

American Philosopher

Kwame Nkrumah

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Ghanaian Statesman

Albert Camus

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

French Philosopher

Aldous Huxley

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

English Novelist

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

American Poet

Servitude implies a lack of freedom, often with negative feelings like oppression or subjugation.

Negative Connotation

The term often relates to historical periods like colonialism or ancient empires where forced labor was common.

Historical Usage

Do not confuse 'servitude' with 'service'; 'servitude' usually involves coercion, while 'service' is often voluntary.

Mistaken Identity

In legal contexts, 'servitude' refers to specific rights or obligations and is less about personal conditions.

Legal Specificity

A servitude can limit what owners can do with their land, often benefiting someone else.

Property Restrictions

It often involves an obligation to allow something, like access, that one might not naturally agree to.

Imposed Obligations

 the emancipation act was gradual. Those who were currently enslaved were forced to serve a period of indentured servitude until their mid-20s. Throughout this period, enslavers repeatedly sold Baumfree, tearing her from her loved ones. Often, she was explicitly prevented from pursuing new relationships.

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 bears the nickname cow town the stockyards are now a major shopping dining and entertainment venues if I was introduced to the earth I would attempt to stop human trafficking according to the United Nations every year 2.5 million people are trafficked and forced into involuntary servitude although the

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 A popular origin suggests that it was used as a way to serve people of color who were forbidden to eat in cafes and restaurants. Nonwhite customers had to order their food to go at the door and the dense bread served as a robust and portable container. From indentured servitude to apartheid,

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 It was a way of appeasing the gods. Otherwise the rain wouldn't come, the sun wouldn't shine. Public executions. They were common, normal, legal. You used to take your kids to watch beheadings in the streets of Paris. One of the greatest wrongs, slavery, indentured servitude,

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 enslaving people who are black and we never address that that legacy we have in the 13th amendment language that prohibits involuntary servitude in forced labor we never talked about the narrative of racial differences because of that I don't believe that slavery

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 a people who lived free in the forest until a generation ago, and now have all been reduced to servitude and prostitution on the banks of the rivers, where you can see the river itself is soiled with the silt that seems to be carrying half of Borneo away

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 Robot, a machine capable of carrying out a programmable series of actions. The origin of the word robot dates back more than a thousand years to the era of serfdom in central Europe when servitude was the currency for rent.

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 it's important to note that slavery, including sex trafficking, occurs in our own backyard as well. Tens of hundreds of people are enslaved in agriculture, in restaurants, in domestic servitude, and the list can go on.

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 genocides across entire continents, mass exploitation of colonized peoples, industrial servitude, two disastrous world wars, the Holocaust, nuclear warfare, species extinctions, environmental degradation,

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 and she has changed the culture in the country. Now it is illegal for fathers to sell their daughters into servitude. She has also founded orphanages and nutritional clinics. She is always happy

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