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• There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

  Aristotle

  Would Be, Imagine, Masters

  Aristotle (1963). “The Politics of Aristotle”

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• Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

  George Orwell

  World, Slavery, May

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Half, Abraham

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Gears, Welcome

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• Those who call me God, will fall into the deep pit of hell. Regard me as one of his slaves and have no doubt whatever about it. I am a servant of the Supreme Being; and have come to behold the wonderful drama of life.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Drama, Fall, Doubt

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• We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

  David Brion Davis

  Slave Labor, Faces, Contradiction

  David Brion Davis (2008). “Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

  Miguel Syjuco

  Tyrants, Humanity, Tails

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fashion, Lying, Men

  "Empowerment Of Women Speech" by Yasmin Mogahed, www.yasminmogahed.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing that's going on, there's some big spirit behind me who send me to do the thing that I must do.

  Lee “Scratch” Perry

  Mind, Want, Spirit

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• This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Order, Differences

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.23, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Virginia, Law

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• Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Desire, Action

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.172, Routledge

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• People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

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• One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Passion, Joy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2384, Manonmani Publishers

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• Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Land, Abortion

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• Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live as slaves and submitted to tyrants. Now the time has come to revolt and destroy the shackle of slavery.

  Sheikh Abdullah

  Tyrants, Long, Over You

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• And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Substitutes, Loses

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• Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Biblical, Law, People

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law". Book by R. J. Rushdoony, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1973.

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• A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

  Jose Bergamin

  Men, Doe, Just One

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• I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Stars, Philosophical

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.48, Chartwell

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• There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Father, Stupid, Humorous

  Louis Farrakhan's speech at the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., www.cnn.com. October 17, 1995.

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• Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God's existence.

  Juhani Peltonen

  Morning, Atheist, Lying

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• Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.

  Lewis Cass

  Christian, Passion, Independent

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• If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.

  Samuel Adams

  Yield, Law, Giving

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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