Enslavement Quotes

• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Powerful, Freedom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.3

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• If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.

  Michele Bachmann

  Gay, Despair, Lifestyle

  "Bachmann says ‘I don’t judge’ gays". Interview, www.nbcnews.com. August 14, 2011.

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• There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

  Ayn Rand

  Suicide, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.466, Penguin

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• Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Mind, Needs

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Freedom, Responsibility, Wish

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• For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.

  Kevin Bales

  Eye, Reality, World

  Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

  R. D. Laing

  Insane World, Break Through, Insanity

  'The Politics of Experience' (1967) ch. 6

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  Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Freedom

  Speech by minister Koenders at the presentation of the 2015 Human Rights Tulip, November 12, 2015.

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• Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

  Etienne de La Boetie

  Freedom, Fall, Hands

  "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.

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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

  R. D. Laing

  Break Through, Diversity, May

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 6

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• Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

  William Pickens

  Taken, Color, Inferiority

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• If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

  Agnes Macphail

  Home, Mean, Break

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• people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

  John Hancock

  Respect, Honesty, Men

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• One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Men, Years, Law

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Race, History, African American

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.102, Book Tree

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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

  Fundamentals, Metaphor, Chains

  "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, (Introduction), 2002.

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• There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

  Louise Brooks

  Stars, Careers, World

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• The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.

  John Ensign

  People, Voting, President

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• To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

  Karl Liebknecht

  People, States, Existence

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  To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

  George Mason

  Strength, Peace, Gun

  George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788.

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• One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.

  David Eddings

  Betrayal, Hate, Acceptance

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• There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  God, Atheist, Heart

  "“No gods” solstice display returns for 7th year to Illinois Capitol". ffrf.org. December 4, 2015.

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• The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They
  always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as
  elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper
  spheres.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Power, Government, Political

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• Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Government, People

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• ..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

  Gary Chapman

  Inspirational Love, Past, Needs

  Gary D. Chapman (2017). “The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships”, p.30, Moody Publishers

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