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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.
Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
We don't take ourselves very seriously and view working at Barstool Sports as a way to avoid becoming slaves to cubicle life.
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves.
It's not our land; it's not made for us. It's America. That's how it was designed. We came here as slaves. It wasn't designed for us to win.
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
'New Slaves' is too real to me. It's like a freestyle of real talk, with the sickest beat. It's like the beat was made for the verses themselves.
The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we can't keep erasing history.
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead. They're dead, they're dead, they're dead. The South's not risin' again. The slaves have been emancipated.
We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.