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...life-style has been to move into a new home in Los Altos that was modeled after a Welsh castle. It has a sauna and Jacuzzi in the master bedroom and an elaborate security system. Hwang still works a six-day week. Says he: "My executives call me a slave driver. But I tell them to look at Osborne, and they don't say anything." Adam Osborne headed a fast-growing personal-computer firm that announced plans to go public last winter but ended up filing for bankruptcy in September...
...suspended tire and beaten with cables and whips. In one testimony, a 15-year-old boy told of being whipped and threatened with blindness if he did not reveal where his father was. Another student described a soundproof torture room in Aleppo that featured a machine called "the black slave." Recounted the youth: "When switched on, a very hot and sharp metal skewer enters the rear, burning...
...There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting depotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities...
...live on 14 percent of the land, the ruling government of whites--using apartheid statutes and arrest, torture, secret trials and imprisonment unmatched anywhere in the world--excludes the Black majority from the voting process altogether. For Blacks in South Africa, life means misery, dire poverty, complete political disenfranchisement, slave labor and rule by terror. The white government, moreover, occupies the neighboring state of Namibia in violation of international law and regularly launches raids into Angola...
...each other...Where's progress? Every age has got its social reformer." Sam, the more intelligent and articulate of the Negro servants, easily replies, "Where's ours?" which Hally shrugs and offers. "Who knows, maybe he isn't born yet." Hal later chastises. "You've never been a slave, Sam. Besides, South Africa freed your ancestors long before the Americans...