“ Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live! ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves. ”
- Paul D. Moody- Copy
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“ Plato had slaves…George Washington had slaves… So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead! ”
- Todd Andrew Reid- Copy
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“ There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. ”
- Frederick Douglass- Copy
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“ The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall… freedom and slavery are mental states. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically. ”
- Ousmane Sembane- Copy
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“ He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. ”
- Saint Augustine- Copy
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“ It's a statement of our position, which is that we are not making this record in order to honor technology; we're not slaves to that, we don't want to be slaves to that. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia. the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ I have a dream that one daythe sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. Among the Romans it was customary before undertaking any important action or enterprise to obtain from the augurs, or state prophets, some hint of its probable outcome; and one of their favorite and most trustworthy modes of divination consisted in observing the flight of birds — the omens thence derived being called auspices… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. ”
- Sir Richard Francis Burton- Copy
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“ No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. ”
- John Peter Zenger- Copy
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“ He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave. ”
- Klopstock- Copy
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“ Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. ”
- George Gurdjieff- Copy
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“ They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ”
- William Pitt- Copy
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“ Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave! ”
- Constantin Brancusi- Copy
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“ A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. ”
- Sir William Drummond- Copy
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