Sentence examples for keep in bondage from inspiring English sources

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"Now they cater to the very poor, who they can keep in bondage with free stuff, and to the very rich in Hollywood, to keep the donations coming in.

For almost three centuries, some people with white skin in our nation believed that they were endowed by their Creator with the divine right to enslave and keep in bondage millions of other human beings whose skin was dark, and who came from another continent.

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The abducted slaves were kept in bondage by the runaways.

Some were found to have been kept in bondage in the apartments where they worked, the report said, and were forced to keep work routines tantamount to slavery.

"America is the place to talk about slavery," said Dorothy Spruill Redford, a historian who manages Somerset Place, a plantation site in North Carolina, where her ancestors were kept in bondage.

Yet, more than a hundred and fifty years after the Emancipation Proclamation, you still will not find, anywhere in our country, a federal monument to the millions of people whom we, as a nation, kept in bondage.

Among the justices who dissented was Justice Harry Black-mun, who wrote that if the newspapers continued to publish these documents and the results were more soldiers killed, alliances destroyed, negotiation with the enemy made more difficult, the war prolonged, and American prisoners kept in bondage, "then the nation's people will know where the responsibility for these sad consequences rests".

Lovers generally want to share the loved one's thoughts and to keep them in bondage.

You have the power to control your imagination, therefore they can either keep you in bondage or liberate you.

They are said to have then been kept in debt bondage, forced to work up to 17 hours a shift, bussed to farms the length of the country to catch hens through the night, sleeping for days at a time only in vans, in some weeks not paid at all, and, according to workers' testimony, kept under control by Lithuanian enforcers with threats of violence and on occasions actual physical assault.

Schulz writes that "we, as a nation," kept people in bondage and that "we" are drawn to these stories because they illustrate our finest moral selves.

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