Quotes with anti-slavery

Quotes 81 till 100 of 123.

  • Seneca Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Edmund Burke Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in evers' soil.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Alfred Marshall Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
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  • Mike Tyson Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
    Mike Tyson
    American boxer and media personality (born 1966) (1966 - )
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  • Paul Mccartney Somebody said to me, ''But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.'' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ''Now, let's write a swimming pool.''
    Paul Mccartney
    English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Demick The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Carolyn Murphy The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • John Ruskin The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Beau Willimon The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bernie Sanders The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Orson Welles The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Albert Camus The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Upton Sinclair The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
    Upton Sinclair
    American writer (1878 - 1968)
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  • Caleb Cushing The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Bee Wilson The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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