William Blake
Poet, Painter
"Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's."
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Slave
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Frederick Douglass
Social Reformer, Writer
"A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them."
Howard Gardner
Psychologist, Educator
"If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave."
Assata Shakur
Activist
"To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it."
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"If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves."
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"The best slave is the one who thinks he is free."
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"Be not the slave of your own past."
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"Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power"
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"Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave."
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"If we gotta fight and die for America, why should we be treated like slaves in America?"
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"You're a Good Little Slave"
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"If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave."
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"None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions."
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"You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it."
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"Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee."
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"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."
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"Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?"
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"Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women."
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"We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery."
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"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master."
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"The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves"
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"Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom."
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"A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave."
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"One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison."
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