"What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words."
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"Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger."
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"The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others."
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"There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him."
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"A man in armor is his armor's slave."
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"One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves."
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"Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?"
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"Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave."
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"No one chains a slave without chaining himself."
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"A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave."
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"There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment."
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"A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing."
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"I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves."
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"The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house."
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"I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated."
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"The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing."
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"There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there."
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"Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices."
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"What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?"
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"It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver."
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