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Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

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.

Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

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.

Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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.

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?

Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal.

If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.

If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.