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> [“Are you so simple as to assume that the Big Surrender banished the concept of human slavery from the earth? What is the principle of slavery? Only the literal buying and selling of human flesh on the block? That was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zora-neale-hurston/are-you-so-simple-as-to-assume-that-the-big-surrender-banished-the/)

[Zora Neale Hurston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zora-neale-hurston/)

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> [The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakunin/the-truth-is-that-the-whole-life-of-the-worker-is-simply-a-continuous/)

[Mikhail Bakunin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakunin/)

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