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  • ...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.16, Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

    Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859
  • What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

    Crazy   Games   Mind  
    Margaret Atwood (1989). “The Edible Woman”, New Canadian Library
  • In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

    Father   Half   Slavery  
    Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, James Ford Rhodes, John Esten Cooke (2017). “CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions”, p.503, Madison & Adams Press
  • It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

    Wise   Wisdom   Stupid  
  • The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

    Children   Males   Slave  
  • Jimmy Carter, of course, was beloved. Peanut farmer. Came out of nowhere, governor of Georgia. Normally Democrats hate Southern accents, 'cause Southern accents equals Deliverance, equals hayseed, equals idiot. But if it's one of them... But you had to look the other way with Jimmy Carter and then here came Bill Clinton later. So depending on where the Southern accent's from, they'll make an exception and not be prejudicial about it. But for the most part, a Southern accent may as well be a slave owner as far as Democrats are concerned; they want no part of it.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

    Julian Bond (1972). “A time to speak, a time to act: the movement in politics”
  • I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me.

    "Janelle Monáe: 'I'm a time traveller. I have been to lots of different places'". Interview With Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2013.
  • But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of anger, full of nastiness. Soon they destroy it. Hence for centuries they have depended on marriage. Better to start by marriage so that the law can protect you from destroying it. The society, the government, the court, the policeman, the priest, they will all force you to live in the institution of marriage, and you will be just a slave. If marriage is an institution, you are going to be a slave in it. Only slaves want to live in institutions.

  • I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.

    Life   Horse   Passion  
    "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.
  • A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

    Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858
  • Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

    Moving   Army   Greek  
    "Historia Alexandri Magni". Pseudo-Kallisthenes,
  • I know I'm a Son of God, an heir of God, and a joint heir of Christ. I'm seated with him in the heavenlies, but by choice; like Paul, Peter and others, I've chosen to be a slave.

    Son   Choices   Heirs  
    Source: www.cbn.com
  • Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.

    Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.83
  • If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

  • To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

    Men   Practice   Waiting  
    Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen
  • A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.

    Horse   Jobs   Looks  
    Source: www.americancowboy.com
  • It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

    Speech in House of Commons, 22 Feb. 1906
  • Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

    Men   Use   Might  
    Algernon SIDNEY, Isaac Littlebury (1704). “Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author”, p.245
  • For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.

    Wise   Opposites   Brave  
    Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com
  • So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

    Selfish   Mistake   Men  
    "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854
  • You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.

    Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.246, Simon and Schuster
  • No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

    Leadership   Witty   Men  
  • He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

  • The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.130, Hackett Publishing
  • 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.

    Bankers   Cost   Banking  
  • Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.

    Men   Land   Abortion  
  • As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

    Wisdom   Freedom   Humor  
    "Definition of Democracy," ca. 1 Aug. 1858
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