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• The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Mind, Able

  Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.791, Univ of California Press

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• No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Thinking, Cfs

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• The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs."

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Father, Reality, America

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1888). “Old portraits and modern sketches”

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• Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us today. The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Powerful, Teaching

  "The Failure of Christianity". Essay in the Mother Earth Journal, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. April 1913.

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• What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Men, Law

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.

  Henry Fielding

  Pay, Should, Taxes

  Henry Fielding (2015). “History of Tom Jones: the History Focus”, p.26, 谷月社

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• I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Men, Thinking

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Men, Light

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• It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Kings, Women, Government

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• Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.

  William J. Clinton

  Islands, Years, Slave Ships

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.70, Best Books on

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• Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Night, Men, Decay

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 4, l. 551

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• Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

  John Quincy Adams

  Years, Promise, Earth

  John Quincy Adams (2017). “John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848”, p.174, Library of America

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• As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, Flags, Slavery

  Said to Otto von Bismarck in June 1878. " Around the World with General Grant". Book by John Russell Young. Volume 7, p. 416, www.granthomepage.com. 1879.

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• The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Views, Years

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

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• I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.

  Chaka Khan

  Morning, Men, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

  Douglas Hurd

  Giving, Tools, Pleasure

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• Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Years, Class, White

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Cutting, Legislature, Made

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Country, Children, Home

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• Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master…Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware.

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Country, Wall, Government

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• The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.

  Jesse Shera

  Thinking, Data, Tools

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• Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fall, Men, Cities

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes to Electra, Act 2, 1943.

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• We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Song, Men, Thinking

  Eugene O'Neill (2014). “The Hairy Ape”, p.13, The Floating Press

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• The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Giving, Ornaments

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.144, Transaction Publishers

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• Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Selfish, Passion, Men

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus”, p.20

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