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• Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.

  Claude Monet

  Morning, Responsibility, Thinking

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• A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.

  Charles Churchill

  School, Race, Criticism

  Charles Churchill (1776). “Poems”, p.17

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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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• The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

  Lisa Alther

  Men, Air, Life Is

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• Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

  George Farquhar

  Men, Feet, Promise

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• Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey, Away from the world that slaves for money-- Come, journey the way with me.

  Madison Cawein

  Dream, Lying, Heart

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• No more slave States and no more slave territory.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Slavery, Territory, States

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Resolutions Adopted at the Free-Soil National Convention), 1922.

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• Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!

  Ben Harper

  Mean, Reality, Hands

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• Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Live Life, Men, Self

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• I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Thinking, Technique, Methodology

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• The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

  James Henry Hammond

  Class, Slavery, Term

  Speech in the U. S. Senate, March 1858.

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• As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

  Robert Genn

  Photography, Artist, Loyal

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• The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.

  Richard Furman

  Crazy, Stupid, Scary

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• The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Humble, Angel, Reality

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• Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave? No; but they are now wasting away the black race by thousands.... Treat the slaves kindly and let them live, for Ham must be the servant of servants until the curse is removed. Can you destroy the decrees of the Almighty? You cannot. Yet our Christian brethren think that they are going to overthrow the sentence of the Almighty upon the seed of Ham. They cannot do that, though they may kill them by thousands and tens of thousands.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Struggle, Thinking

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• Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fashion, Ebb And Flow, Cities

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.95, tredition

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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