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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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• Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

  Dennis Green

  Thinking, Taste, Slavery

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• That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  White, Slave Girl, Female

  Patricia Hill Collins (2002). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.92, Routledge

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• War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

  Heraclitus

  Kings, Father, War

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• Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Genius, Pestilence

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Technology

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2013

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• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  Omar Sharif

  Passion, Years, Bridges

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• Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Influence

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.87

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• Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

  LeCrae

  Sex, Mean, Drug

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• The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  Greed, Body, Reason Why

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• You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

  Carl Jung

  Soul, Needs, Your Soul

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• I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

  Regina Spektor

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "What Regina Spektor Sees From the Cheap Seats". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. May 2012.

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• Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

  Euripides

  Speak, Free Thought, Dare

  Euripides (1814). “The tragedies of Euripides translated [by R. Potter]. by R. Potter”, p.307

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• William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.

  J. I. Packer

  Blessed, Men, Evil

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• People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

  Abdullah Ibrahim

  Taken, People, Made

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• I am the dream and the hope of the slave

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, History, African American

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.9, Random House

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• Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Diving Deep, Sea

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• There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

  John Legend

  Men, Black, Today

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• They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

  Charles Bukowski

  Alive, Pay, Back To Work

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• A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Strong, Passion, Self

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• In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.

  Mark Mirabello

  Suggestions, Complaining, Citizens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

  George Santayana

  Family, Race, Class

  George Santayana (1954). “The Life of Reason: Or, The Phases of Human Progress”, p.184, Prabhat Prakashan

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• No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

  Euripides

  Men, Public Opinion, Earth

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Nostalgia, Terrorism, Masters

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• Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Equality, Men

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