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• So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Plato, Philosophical, Men

  "What Do We Have To Teach Plato?". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, news.stlpublicradio.org. April 22, 2014.

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• I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Creating, Want

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• To whomever gives a kiss or a blow
  Render a kiss or blow
  But to whomever gives when you are unable to return
  Offer all the hatred in your heart
  For you were slaves and he enslaves you

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Kissing, Blow

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• Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.

  Aldous Huxley

  Beautiful, Army, Power

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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• To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

  Frances Wright

  Freedom, Blessing, Giving

  Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.518

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• When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Hero, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.774, Modern Library

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• The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Stupid, Dumb

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

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• Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Together, Half

  Abraham Lincoln's letter to George Robertson of Lexington, Kentucky (August 15, 1855), later published in "Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860" by Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, 1909.

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• I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Desire, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.316, Fordham Univ Press

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• The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Power, Tyrants

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters”, p.163

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• When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

  Herman Melville

  Men, Slavery, Born

  Herman Melville (1963). “Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver”

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• Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Struggle, Love Is, Self

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

  Epictetus

  Mean, House, Soul

  Epictetus (1877). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”, p.422

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• I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

  Golda Meir

  Diaries, Schedules, Half

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse.

  Duke Ellington

  Rocks, Roots, Pulse

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• If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good purpose. The machine itself has neither mind nor soul nor moral sense. Only man has been endowed with these godlike attributes. Every age has its destined duty. Ours is to nurture an awareness of those divine attributes and a sense of responsibility in giving them expression.

  David Sarnoff

  Responsibility, Science, Men

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• Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

  Herodotus

  Slavery, Masters

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• Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Hurt, Home, Self

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• ... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  War, Men, Years

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• Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

  Jean Racine

  Faith, Iron, Slavery

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• Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds?
  There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Beauty, Art, Eye

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• Slaves. though we be enrolled
  Minds are never to be sold.

  David Ruggles

  Mind

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• Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.

  David O. McKay

  War, Soldier, Remember

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• I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

  Elizabeth I

  Regret, Unhappiness, Form

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• Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Names, People, Giving

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