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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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• 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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• The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Fear, Artist, Details

  Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Victory, Earth, Green

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.221, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Spring, Hunting

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave became a serf and was on his way to becoming a peasant and a fully free man-a man free economically as well as politically. The whole spirit of the Church was for small property, and that spirit was slowly, instinctively, working for the establishment of small property throughout Christendom.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Catholic, Mind

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.47, TAN Books

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• Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in education, of State medicine and the rest, is developing into the slave, leaving the rich man apart and free. All industrial civilization is clearly moving towards the re-establishment of the Servile State.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Moving, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (2009). “Essays of a Catholic”, p.167, TAN Books

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• If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

  Orestes Brownson

  Wisdom, Population, Wages

  Richard M. Reinsch, II, Orestes Augustus Brownson (2016). “Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology”, p.170, CUA Press

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• Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

  Orestes Brownson

  Wisdom, Devil, Wages

  Richard M. Reinsch, II, Orestes Augustus Brownson (2016). “Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology”, p.171, CUA Press

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• We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

  William Faulkner

  Wisdom, Wall, Powerful

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.150, Modern Library

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• Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave.

  Lewis Henry Morgan

  Wisdom, Hands, Politics

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• Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Class, Community

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be "secured" - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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• A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but do not own / or who own, but do not work; or who distribute, as politicians do, but do not produce. The danger of the "slave state" disappears in ratio to the numbers of people who own property and admit its attendant responsibilities under God. They can call their souls their own because they own and administer something other than their souls. Thus they are free.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Flirting

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