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• Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

  Bill T. Jones

  Memories, Remember, Forget

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• If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Race, People, Guilt

  "‘White guilt’? Forget it: Whites have ‘done more to end’ slavery than ‘any other race,’ says Rush Limbaugh" by Clare Kim, www.msnbc.com. July 22, 2013.

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• To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Couple, Independent, Men

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• They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.

  Malcolm X

  Practice, Differences, America

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• Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.

  Antonin Scalia

  Eye, Thinking, Race

  Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 515 U.S. 200, 239, 1995.

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• It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered society founded on mutual esteem. But the injury done my country, and the chains of slavery forging for all posterity, calls me forth to defend our common rights, and repel the bold invaders of the sons of freedom.

  Nathanael Greene

  Country, Son, Rights

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• If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

  Paul Watson

  War, Animal, Views

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• There shall be no slavery of the mind.

  Victor Hugo

  Mind, Atheism, Positive Atheism

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• Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

  Paul Robeson

  Fighting, Artist, Choices

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• There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

  Robert E. Lee

  Believe, Evil, Political

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• While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day.

  Robert E. Lee

  Prayer, Mean, Hands

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• So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Believe, Lost

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• The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

  Diogenes

  Art, Slave, Masters

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Economic Inequality, Greed

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• I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

  Samuel Adams

  Believe, People, Yoke

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Mean, Ideas

  "Did Rand Paul equate a right to health care with slavery?" by Louis Jacobson, www.politifact.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

  Saint Augustine

  Character, Order, Law

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• The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.

  Mel White

  Christian, Children, Gay

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• Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Ownership

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• The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

  Plato

  Memories, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.264

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• And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

  Plato

  Plato, Boys, Men

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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• In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Biblical, Gay, Reality

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• Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Freedom, Liberty, Opinion

  Lawana Blackwell (2008). “Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, The”, p.262, Bethany House

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• Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

  Olara Otunnu

  Children, Hate, War

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