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• This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Country, United States, Example

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. Well, guess what? The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free! This brother was a conquistador who came with Ponce de Leon. He was looking for the Fountain of Youth just like the white people were.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Brother, Florida, Names

  "Gates Unlocked!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blessing, Heaven, Mind

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• If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Not Happy, Ifs

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.526, e-artnow

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• The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Passion, Men, Soul

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• All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Feet, Charm

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• Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Names, White

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1977.

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• I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

  Thomas Browne

  Heaven, Way, Scared

  Sir Thomas Browne (2012). “Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall”, p.58, New York Review of Books

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• By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

  Edwin Markham

  Rights, Two, Paradox

  Edwin Markham (1900). “The Man with the Hoe; with Notes by the Author”

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• Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  Brother, Should, Ashamed

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner (1975). “The life and writings of Frederick Douglass”

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• If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  If There Is A God, Should, Ifs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.200, Library of Alexandria

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• There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Practice, Principles, Sophistry

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85

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• No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, People, Progress

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi N. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda;general Editor: S. Gopal”

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• Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Genius, Afar, Becoming

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1893). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• The U.S. Army cancelled an order for 600,000 black berets that were made in China. It's not just that they were made by slave laborers. It's that no soldier can feel good about himself wearing headgear from the Kathie Lee Collection.

  Argus Hamilton

  Army, Order, Feel Good

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• We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.

  Bill Whittle

  Philosophy, War, Fighting

  "History". Post by Bill Whittle in blog ejectejecteject.com, March 29, 2003.

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• Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.

  Khushwant Singh

  Kings, Sleep, Night

  Khushwant Singh (1990). “Delhi”

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• Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.

  Esther Vilar

  Dog, Men, Pavlov

  Esther Vilar (2005). “The Manipulated Man”, p.1, Pinter & Martin Publishers

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• I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not one of brute force; that His rule is over hearts, not over places; that His victories must be inward before they can be outward; that He seeks to control spirits rather than bodies; that no triumph could satisfy Him but a triumph that gains the heart; that in short, where God really reigns, the surrender must be the interior surrender of the convicted free men, and not merely the outward surrender of the conquered slave.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Heart, Men, Ideas

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• It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

  Eric Berne

  Men, Beloved, Loved Ones

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• How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny, to obey a dictator? How can we expect democracy when we have reared slaves? Real freedom begins at the beginning of life, not at the adult stage. These people who have been diminished in their powers, made short-sighted, devitalized by mental fatigue, whose bodies have become distorted, whose wills have been broken by elders who say: "your will must disappear and mine prevail!"-how can we expect them, when school-life is finished, to accept and use the rights of freedom?

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Real, School

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• What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Evil, Unjust, Standing Out

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• I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

  Neil Oliver

  Dad, Thousand, Paid

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Song, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Lynching, People, Slavery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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