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4,904. The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it. (Suffragettes & Feminism & Woman & Slavery & Discrimination & Sexism & Chains) Susan B Anthony
49,699. The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! (Marxism & Communism & Labour & Work & Working Class & Chains & Unity & Solidarity & Trade Unions & Revolution) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
4,568. Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains. (Man & Freedom & Chains & France) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
5,465. It is often better [variation: safer] to be in chains than to be free. (Freedom & Chains) Franz Kafka, The Trial
48,081. Chains made in the Black Country were renowned for their quality all over the world. At the end of the nineteenth century 90% of all the chain workshops in England and Wales were here in the black country. (Steam & Engine & Chains) Fred Dibnah’s Made in Britain: Engines at Work, BBC 2005
48,082. Our engine is actually steered by chains. We’ve come here to the Black Country Museum to see a gentleman making chains in exactly the same way as this chain would have been made in 1912, without any fancy electric welding or anything like that. (Steam & Engine & Chains) Fred Dibnah’s Made in Britain: Chains and Copper
30,174. There was still a huge gulf between rich and poor. In 1910 the chain makers of the black country went on strike ... The most exploited were the women. (Great Britain & England & Strike & Industrial Action & Chains) Michael Wood, The Great British Story 8/8: A People’s History, BBC 2012
6,503. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. (Mind & Worry & Happiness & Chains) Ovid
138,831. You know what? They were good fires. They were fires of freedom. People were breaking the chains. (Fire & Black People & Miscarriages of Justice & Racism & Protest & Demonstrations & Riots & Chains) Uprising III: The Front Line, BBC 2021
6,983. Chainmaking: Patience say that from the age of ten she worked relentlessly and hardly ever had a day off … A new minimum wage, which meant that chainmaking companies had to pay their workers a whole penny more, an increase of over 50%. So how did the owners respond? Easy. They just refused to pay it … In 1910 the National Federation of Women Workers called a strike. In retaliation the employers locked the chainmakers out … Patience aged 79 joined the march … And after a ten-week standoff the employers finally caved in. (Great Britain & England & Strike & Chains) Tony Robinson’s History of Britain s2e2: Edwardians