To me, immigration is the greatest example of our faulty thinking, a shortsightedness that hurts others while simultaneously hurting ourselves.

Logically, if immigrants were “stealing” jobs, so would every young person leaving school and entering the job market; countries should become poorer as they get larger. In reality, of course, the opposite happens.

Lump of Labor Fallacy: the erroneous notion that there is only so much work to be done and that no one can get a job without taking one from someone else.

Rationally speaking, we should take in far more immigrants than we currently do.

hrough offering legal status to some of the roughly 11.2 million undocumented workers who aren’t going away.

r, it will prove her greatest curse.

My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

We all concluded by saying, "He that is willing to be a slave, let him be a slave."

 This gentleman was a Northerner by birth, and had married a southern lady

Ben, you are sick," said he. "Why, you look like a ghost. I guess I gave you something of a start. Never mind, Ben, I am not going to touch you. You had a pretty tough time of it, and you may go on your way rejoicing for all me. But I would advise you to get out of this place plaguy quick, for there are several gentlemen here from our town." H

        This audacity was punished with heavier chains, and prohibition of our visits.

        Three months elapsed, and there was no prospect of release or of a purchaser.

He escaped from the vessel, but was pursued, captured, and carried back to his master.

Neal and Rick find that in 2010, black men earned about 75 cents for every dollar white men out of prison made.

The Census separately measures this population. According to that data, about 7.6 percent of these white men were institutionalized in 2014. (Overwhelmingly, this means jail, but it could also mean a mental hospital or a nursing home.) For black men, the fraction is so staggering, it seems like a typo — 29 percent of black male high-school dropouts between the ages of 20 and 34 were institutionalized in 2014.

Overall, about 60 percent of young white dropouts and 36 percent of young black dropouts were employed in 2014, according to the Census's Current Population Survey

One in thirteen black adults can't vote because of their criminal records.

According to Census data from 2014, there are more young black high school dropouts in prison than have jobs.

Black men are imprisoned at six times the rate of white men.

The most recent report puts the white unemployment rate at around 4.5 percent. The black unemployment rate? About 8.8 percent.

Black people are twice as likely as white people to be out of work and looking for a job. This fact was as true in 1954 as it is today.

We don't die but once."

        I took them off, and my stockings also. She then sent me a long distance, on an errand. As I went through the snow, my bare feet tingled. That night I was very hoarse; and I went to bed thinking the next day would find me sick, perhaps dead. What was my grief on waking to find myself quite well!

She knew that some of them would be taken from her; but they took all. The

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

  Hiring-day at the south takes place on the 1st of January.

God for taking her away from the greater bitterness of life

    The girl's mother said, "The baby is dead, thank God; and I hope my poor child will soon be in heaven, too

I once saw a young slave girl dying soon after the birth of a child nearly white. In her agony she cried out, "O Lord, come and take me!" Her mistress stood by, and mocked at her like an incarnate fiend. "You suffer, do you?" she exclaimed. "I am glad of it. You deserve it all, and more too."

sometimes she was locked up, away from her nursing baby, for a whole day and night.

dish not to his liking, he would either order her to be whipped,

She did this to prevent the cook and her children from eking out their meagre fare with the remains of the gravy and other scrapings.

She had lived forty years under the same roof with my grandmother; she knew how faithfully she had served her owners, and how cruelly she had been defrauded of her rights; and she resolved to protect her. The auctioneer waited for a higher bid; but her wishes were respected; no one bid above her.

grandmother's mistress had always promised her that, at her death, she should be free; and it was said that in her will she made good the promise. But when the estate was settled, Dr. Flint told the faithful old servant that, under existing circumstances, it was necessary she should be sold.

Little attention was paid to the slaves' meals in Dr. Flint's house.

Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings.

I heard her mother sob, as the clods fell on the coffin of her only child,

While I was with her, she taught me to read and spell; and for this privilege, which so rarely falls to the lot of a slave, I bless her memory.

But, alas! we all know that the memory of a faithful slave does not avail much to save her children from the auction block.

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died

On her death-bed her mistress promised that her children should never suffer for any thing; and during her lifetime she kept her word.

he was the foster sister of my mother; they were both nourished at my grandmother's breast.

outh Carolina, who, at his death, left her mother and his three children free, with money to go to St. Augustine, where they had relatives. It was during the Revolutionary War; and they were captured on their passage, carried back, and sold to different purchaser

hey lived together in a comfortable home; and, though we were all slaves,

purchase his children;

        I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

Secondly, the mistress, with whom she lived till she was twelve years old, was a kind, considerate friend, who taught her to read and spell

        At her request, I have revised her manuscript; but such changes as I have made have been mainly for purposes of condensation and orderly arrangement. I have not added any thing to the incidents,

esire to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions of women at the South, still in bondage, suffering what I suffered, and most of them far worse.

Neither do I care to excite sympathy for my own sufferings

When I first arrived in Philadelphia, Bishop Paine advised me to publish a sketch of my life, but I told him I was altogether incompetent to such an undertaking.

known some few good monarchs, but groaned beneath a much larger number of bad ones:

I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. THE LORD SHALL RULE OVER YOU.

And when a man seriously reflects on the idolatrous homage which is paid to the persons of kings, he need not wonder that the Almighty,

It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatr

kings

First.—That the King is not to be trusted without being looked after, or in other words, that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.⚓✪ Secondly.—That the Commons, by being appointed for that purpose, are either wiser or more worthy of confidence than the Crown.

if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs;

Creo en el pueblo Cubano.

ou see it in Gloria Gonzalez, who traveled here in 2013 for the first time after 61 years of separation, and was met by her sister, Llorca.

Look at Papito Valladeres, a barber, whose success allowed him to improve conditions in his neighborhood.