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  • Freedom and slavery are mental states.

    'Non-Violence in Peace and War' (1949) vol. 2, ch. 5
  • None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.3
  • Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

    Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.515
  • Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

    Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.5, Univ of California Press
  • The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

    Non-Violence in Peace and War (1949) vol. 2, ch. 5
  • No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

    Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting,Washington, D.C., 22 Oct. 1883
  • In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

    Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862
  • I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
  • There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

    "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, Part I, 1835.
  • Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

    Book   College   Thinking  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.325, Bantam Classics
  • Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

    Wisdom   Freedom   Men  
  • Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

    Kings   Women   Slavery  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.349, Bantam Classics
  • I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2995, Delphi Classics
  • Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

  • Better to starve free than be a fat slave

    Barbara McClintock, Aesop (2012). “Animal Fables from Aesop”, p.48, David R. Godine Publisher
  • The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

  • Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

    Country   Fall   Air  
    'The Task' (1785) bk. 2 'The Timepiece' l. 40.
  • I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

    Freedom   War   Gun  
    Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

    Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859
  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    Life   Strong   Freedom  
    Speech to 140th Indiana regiment, 17 Mar. 1865
  • Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

    Dream   Time   Peace  
    Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19
  • War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)
  • If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

    Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.198, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

    Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862
  • Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

    "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)
  • He who controls the past controls the future.

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