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Slavery Quotes

"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery"

"Where annual elections end where slavery begins"

"This is the struggle of every person: be free or be a slave."

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

"Poverty in democracy is as much to be preferred to so-called prosperity under despots, as freedom to slavery."

"Work without love is slavery."

"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny"

"Wealth is the slave of the wise man, the master of the fool."

"A great fortune is a great slavery."

"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free"

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave"

"Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains"

"A wealthy man is a slave to his employees"

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."

"You know all men and women are created equal. End of quote. We’ve never lived up to it. Jefferson never lived up to it, he held slaves. Women were excluded"

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