#slaves

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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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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Gifts make slaves. ↗

— Levi Strauss

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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

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The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. ↗

— George Grey

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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler. ↗

— Samuel Morse

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