"A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery."
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"All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories."
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"Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules."
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"To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father."
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"To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process."
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"The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery."
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"Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in ... abhorrence."
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"Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away."
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"Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path."
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"It's modern-day slavery."
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"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."
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"Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner."
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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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"Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition."
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"Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity."
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"And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone."
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"Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope."
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"He who learns death unlearns slavery."
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"Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science"
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"Base is the slave that pays."
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