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Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

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.

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

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.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.

Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

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.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.

Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men.

Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man to enslave women.

Afrika isomeshe watu wake, na itumie vizuri mapato yanayotokana na mauzo ya rasilimali zake kwa faida ya jumla ya wananchi wa nchi zake, kusudi baadaye wawe wataalamu wa rasilimali za nchi zao wenyewe, kuepukana na utumwa wa rasilimali. Rasilimali za Afrika zina miiko na masharti yake.

After all, what makes any event important, unless by its observation we become better and wiser, and learn 'to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God'? To those who are possessed of this spirit there is scarcely any book of incident so trifling that does not afford some profit, while to others the experience of ages seems of no use; and even to pour out to them the treasures of wisdom is throwing the jewels of instruction away.

Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust a white man.

A human, caught under the oppression of a foreign nation in his/her own country, can be willingly to risk his/her life in order to achieve freedom. To call this act a self-sacrifice, one would have to presume that the person didn’t mind living as a slave of the British. The selfishness of a person who is willing to die, if necessary, fighting for his/her freedom, lies in the fact that he/she is unwilling to go on living in a world where he/she is no longer able to act on his/her own rules and regulations, that is, a world where rudimentary human conditions of existence are no longer possible.

A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.