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• You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Becoming, Masters

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.26, Random House

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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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• 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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• Be your money's master, not its slave.

  Publilius Syrus

  Masters

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 657, 1856.

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• Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Eye, Views, White

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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 This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.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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• If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

  Epictetus

  Purple, Complaining, Ifs

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• In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

  "Strength to Love". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr. , Ch. 2, 1963.

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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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• Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Heart, Men, Giving

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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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• 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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• Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Taken, Hero, Risk

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• The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

  Winston Churchill

  Freedom, People, Political

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• For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Roots, Battle

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.153

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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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• The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Lying, Self

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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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• We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.

  B. W. Powe

  Party, Reality, White

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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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• But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

  William H. Seward

  Fall, Men, Law

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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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• 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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