#slaves

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. ↗

— George Mason

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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. ↗

— Huey Newton

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In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'. ↗

— Link Wray

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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Gifts make slaves. ↗

— Levi Strauss

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