Quotes with slavery

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  • Lawana Blackwell Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • John Paul II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Assata Shakur Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Maria Weston Chapman Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
    Maria Weston Chapman
    American abolitionist (1806 - 1885)
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  • Andrew Johnson Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Edmund Burke Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Antoinette Brown Blackwell Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
    Antoinette Brown Blackwell
    American Protestant minister (1825 - 1921)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • W. H. Auden Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Alexander Herzen Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • 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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  • 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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