Miles Davis
Musician
"Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery"
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Slavery
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Huey Newton
Activist
"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment."
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
Mother Jones
Labor Activist
"I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery"
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery."
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"The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it."
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"The fear of death is the beginning of slavery."
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"Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives."
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"Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors."
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"As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion."
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"The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery."
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"The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery."
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"Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep"
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"They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery."
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"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
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"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."
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"How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery."
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"Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things."
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"Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden."
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"Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt."
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"You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery."
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"In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it."
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"Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery."
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"Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery."
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"Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery."
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