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People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the whites only signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.
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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.
Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 April 1864 -
In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909) -
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
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All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
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America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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Any weak fool can be vicious. To be virtuous you must be a man; to be virtuous is to be truly free; vice is the real slavery.
The Use of Life -
Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?
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At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 237 -
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
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But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.
Redemption Song -
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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