"This war is not about slavery." — Robert E. Lee

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• The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
• Socialism means slavery. — Lord Acton
• If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin
• Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
• Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by… — Isaiah Berlin
• You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without… — William Blake
• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W. E. B. Du Bois
• Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. — W. E. B. Du Bois
• As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to… — Julian Bond
• A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action,… — Rita Mae Brown
• Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. — Pearl S. Buck
• Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. — Edmund Burke

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