Slavery Quotes
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Patterning your life around other`s opinions is nothing more than slavery.
Lawana Blackwell
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Debt is the slavery of the free
Publilius Syrus
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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.
Alfred Adler
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The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer`s money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apar...
Thomas Sowell
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
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Life without the courage for death is slavery
Seneca
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Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness
John Adams
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
Simone de Beauvoir
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
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The Constitution was handed down to guide us by a bunch of those wise old, dead, white guys who invented this country. It`s true - they were white guys. So were most of the guys who died in Lincoln`s name, opposing slavery in the 1860s. So, why should I b...
Charlton Heston
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It would be extraordinary for [the American] film culture to unravel slavery but it doesn`t. People are afraid to deal with it. There is no framework for people to unravel it.
Danny Glover
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People thought it was a picture about slavery. But it wasn`t about slavery at all. It was about American jurisprudence. The point of the film ultimately was that the President in not the king. But I think people were like, `Jesus, not another movie about ...
Morgan Freeman
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People thought it was a picture about slavery. But it wasn`t about slavery at all. It was about American jurisprudence. The point of the film ultimately was that the President in not the king. But I think people were like, `Jesus, not another movie about ...
Morgan Freeman
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People thought it was a picture about slavery. But it wasn`t about slavery at all. It was about American jurisprudence. The point of the film ultimately was that the President in not the king. But I think people were like, `Jesus, not another movie about ...
Morgan Freeman
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You may separate slavery from South Carolina, and the state will still remain; but if you subvert freedom there, the state will cease to exist.
Andrew Norwood
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When work is a pleasure, life is joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Amanda Parks
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Amanda Parks
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When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.
Andre Bauer
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When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
Alexander Jablokov
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
Angela Davis
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
Angela Davis
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To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Alvina Tan
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To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.
Andrew Norwood
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They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.
Andre Bauer
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Andrea Dziewior
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There`s no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.
Amal Salman
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Andrew Norwood
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There is no slavery but ignorance.
Anders Aslund
