Quotes with neo-slavery

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bob Rae The premise of neo-conservatives is that markets left to their own devices will produce the best possible result, and that political interference is not required. This defies the human reality that people are not commodities, and simply refuse to behave as if they were.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Pro
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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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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  • Virginia Woolf To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Algernon Sydney To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • George Orwell War is peace,
    Freedom is slavery,
    Ignorance is strength.
    1984
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Victor Hugo We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Angela Davis Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Herman Melville When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Maxim Gorky When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
    Maxim Gorky
    Russian and Soviet writer (0 - 1936)
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  • John Quincy Adams Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
    John Quincy Adams
    American statesman (1767 - 1848)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot be.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Michael Moore You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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