#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

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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

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

— Victor Hugo

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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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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children. ↗

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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