"Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery."
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"Man alone can enslave man."
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"Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?"
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"Slavery was a long slow process of dulling."
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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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"Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship."
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"The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery."
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"The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery."
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"My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise."
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"If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone."
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"Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections."
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"Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning."
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"Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity."
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"The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth."
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"A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer."
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"Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers."
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"They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death."
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"The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape."
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"The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still."
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