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Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an… — Barack Obama
Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found. — F. A. Harper
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the… — Richard J. Maybury
All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting… — Oliver Ellsworth
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down… — David Rice
From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political… — Charles Edward Merriam
In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of… — Joel Barlow
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more… — Margaret E. Knight
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves. — G I Gurdjieff
Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery. — Rajneesh
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. — Rajneesh
And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could… — Sojourner Truth
Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on… — Tom Hodgkinson
Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been… — Horace Porter
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and… — Leo Tolstoy
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a… — Thomas Paine
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in… — Gerry Spence
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms… — Mahatma Gandhi
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly… — Joseph Lowery
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote,… — Kumi Naidoo
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? — Benjamin Tucker
That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working… — Eric Gill

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