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If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my… — Unknown Author
If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all right away. Because… — Unknown Author
Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery. — Unknown Author
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine… — John W. Campbell
I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi
A great fortune is a great slavery. — Seneca the Younger
Then one day along come a Friday and that a unlucky star day and I playin' round de house and marster Williams come up and… — James Green
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which… — Bernard Baruch
I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive… — Abraham Lincoln
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity,… — Ronald Reagan
But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. ... I… — Michele Bachmann
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will… — Epicurus
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. — Hosea Ballou
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. — Upton Sinclair
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and… — Thomas Jefferson
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against… — Khalil Gibran
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many… — Vernon Howard
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or… — Ayn Rand
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement… — P.J. O'Rourke
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create… — Josiah Stamp
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved… — Thomas Sowell
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran

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