#slave

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#appear #cannot #consideration #done #far

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#understand #whatever

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civilization #european #exists #name #now

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creator #enslaved #meter #our #poetry

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#slavery #time

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#give #history #pleasure #provide #should

There is no slavery but ignorance. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#slavery

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#rearden #slave #truth #victim #person

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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