"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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"One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave."
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"We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do."
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"American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them."
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"Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters."
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"Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?"
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"The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave."
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"I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history of slavery and all those things. But I'm not a victim. I can vote, I can participant. I can invest my money. I can invest my time. And that's what I'm doing. I'm not working for anybody. I'm not making any money doing what I'm doing. I'm doing it because someone did it for me."
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"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master."
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"Life without the courage to die is slavery."
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"The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior."
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"I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted."
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"Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow."
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"Freedom and slavery are mental states."
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"Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature."
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"Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them."
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