Slavery
The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.
A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.
The holding of slaves.
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Slavery Quotations
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
Stephen Douglas
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
George Washington
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Andy Warhol
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Bob Marley
All socialism involves slavery.
Herbert Spencer
Slavery Translations
slavery in French is asservissement, esclavage
slavery in German is Knechtschaft, Sklaverei, Sklaverei
slavery in Latin is famulatus, servitus
slavery in Spanish is esclavitud
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