"Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue."
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"Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery."
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"We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we" is not everybody on earth, or even most people, who've never thought about slavery much."
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"The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself."
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"To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master."
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"Slavery is more mental than anything"
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"Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!"
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"To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty."
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"When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery."
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"To some extent I liken slavery to death."
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"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him."
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"Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery."
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"To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself."
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"America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings."
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"You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike."
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"Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty."
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"The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man."
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"Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy)."
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"I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know."
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"I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion."
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