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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted”
Frederick Douglass Quotes |
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“In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.”
Frederick Douglass Quotes |
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“Better to starve free than be a fat slave”
Aesop Quotes |
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“Life without the courage for death is slavery”
Seneca Quotes |
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“If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly”
Martin Luther Quotes |
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“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes |
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“Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.”
James Allen Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul,
that moment they are free.
[Lat., Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliae fines penetraverint
eodem momento liberi sunt.]”
Jean Bodinus (Bodin) Quotes Source: bk. I, ch. V
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“Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air
of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave.”
Lord John Campbell, first Baron Campbell Quotes Source: Lives of Chief Justices (vol. II, p. 418)
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“No more slave States and no more slave territory.
- Salmon Portland Chase,”
Salmon Portland Chase Quotes Source: Resolutions Adopted at the Free-Soil National Convention
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“Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.”
David Christy Quotes Source: Title of Book, pub. 1855
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“It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of
His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme
acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological
inexactitude.”
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3) Quotes Source: in the British House of Commons
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“Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into
excessive slavery.
[Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem
cadit.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Republica (I, 44)
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“He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master
who should be slave.
[Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro (XI)
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“I would not have a slave to till my ground,
To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,
And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth
That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 29)
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“Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 40)
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“I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community
can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we
must get rid of freedom.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: The Assault upon Mr. Sumner's Speech
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“Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.”
David Garrick Quotes Source: Prologue to Edward Moore's Gamesters
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“Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the
South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell;
involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and should be
immediately annulled.
- William Lloyd Garrison,”
William Lloyd Garrison Quotes Source: adopted by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Fanueil Hall
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“The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer,
that man is my master, let me call him what I will.”
Henry George Quotes Source: Social Problems (ch. V)
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“Cotton is King.”
James H. Hammond Quotes Source: a phrase used in the U.S. Senate
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“The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them
slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that class at the North
with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere,
it is eternal.”
James H. Hammond Quotes Source: in a speech in the U.S. Senate
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