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• Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.

  P. T. Barnum

  Excellent, Masters, Horrible

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• Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

  Ameen Rihani

  Mother, Father, Ignorance

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• The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire.

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  Men, Hands, Justice

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• A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Command, Be A Slave

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• What are you to us, you who are cut off from God, a fugitive for Heaven, and a slave of evil? You dare not do anything to us: Christ, the Son of God, has dominion over us and over all. Leave us, you thing of bane. We are made steadfast by the uprightness of His Cross. Serpent, we trample on your head.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Son, Cutting, Evil

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• Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long time you become a slave to a storyboard that was created four years ago while as an artist and storyteller you change, you have new ideas.

  Signe Baumane

  Artist, Years, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Slavery, Constitution, Worried

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• I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Men, Animal, Goal

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• Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission. He does not hold it by permission - but by contract, that is, by a voluntary mutual agreement. A worker can quit his job; a slave cannot.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Mistake, Thinking

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• Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond Egypt's boundaries. As a result of his aggressive attacks slaves and foreign elements were common in Egypt. Consequently, there was more intermarriage during his reign than at other times. Egypt was visited by merchants and traders and was extremely prosperous and cosmopolitan during this period.

  Michael Tsarion

  Father, War, Egypt

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• The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Pigs, Blood, Sweat

  "The Nazi Party: A Complete History 1919-1945". Book by Dietrich Orlow, 2007.

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• It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

  Frederick Douglass

  Unlawful, Teach, Wells

  Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.70, Penguin

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• I thought about ancient times when we didn't have electric light. People were slaves to the ebb and the flow of the light cycle. Good Morning and Good Night represents one light cycle.

  Malik Yusef

  Good Night, Morning, Light

  "Malik Yusef: Word on the Street". Interview with Andre Sternberg, www.motherjones.com. April 1, 2008.

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• Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Hypocrisy, Slavery

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Running, Writing, Firsts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

  Naomie Harris

  Jobs, Impact, Doors

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Leaving, Civil War

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862

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• I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

  Ang Lee

  Film, Masters

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• If we gotta fight and die for America, why should we be treated like slaves in America?

  Hosea Williams

  Fighting, America, Should

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• Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Men, Permit

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• A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Horse, Men

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• Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Clouds, Light

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• I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.

  Damien Lemon

  Valentine, Black History, Way

  "MTV2's Guy Code Fellows Tell Us All About Love, Sex, & Relationships". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about two characters, and I studied so much of music, I would always go back to the original documents, and as much as I can get original chants and slave chants and different type of beats and rhythms and ring shout.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Character, Blood, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

  Emile Coue

  Suggestions, Birth

  Émile Coué (1923). “My method, including American impressions”

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