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• Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant voice in running the institutions that affect their lives?

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Voice, Should Have

  Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy & Education”, p.337, Psychology Press

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• ...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Slavery, Administration

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.16, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Government, Insulting, Public Opinion

  'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3

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• If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Competing, Ifs

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• For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.

  Kevin Bales

  Eye, Reality, World

  Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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• Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Hallmark, Insolence

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• Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

  Simon Bolivar

  Country, Men, Lone

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• In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.

  John Dewey

  Opportunity, Order, Numbers

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Believe, Struggle

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, Freedom, Men

  Speech to 140th Indiana regiment, 17 Mar. 1865

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• Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

  Huey Newton

  People, Slavery, Moments

  Huey P Newton (2011). “The Huey P. Newton Reader”, p.137, Seven Stories Press

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• Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

  Al-Ghazali

  Kings, Desire

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• No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sublime, Masters, Refuse

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• See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

  H. Rap Brown

  Slavery, Be A Slave

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• An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

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• The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Technology, Differences, Slavery

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.40, Random House

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• There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Heaven, Loving A Woman

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.418

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• We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

  Huston Smith

  Distance, Drama, Character

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

  Robert Ripley

  Men, Years, Obscurity

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• I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.

  John Brown

  Powerful, Rights, Ideas

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• I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Abolition Of Slavery, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.109, Penguin

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• I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Slavery, Slavery Freedom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Two, Toil

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1860). “Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery”, p.234

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• I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Example, World

  Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854

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• Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiration, Slave Labor, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.160, Fordham Univ Press

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