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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. Rita Mae Brown 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. Alexander Herzen All socialism involves slavery. Herbert Spencer All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. Noah Webster Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. George Clymer And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. Mary Harris Jones Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. Huey Newton As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. Julian Bond Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. William Shakespeare Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them! George Gissing But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. Josiah Stamp 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. Bob Edwards Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot. Robert Dale Owen Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' Ernestine Rose Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. David Wilmot Death is better than slavery. Harriet Ann Jacobs Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery. Daniel De Leon |
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