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• You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Slavery, Girl

• Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

  Edmund Burke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery

• If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.

  Amiri Baraka

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery, Armed, Fly, Building

• Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I’m sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I’m a black man in America.

  Herman Cain

  Topics in America

  Tags in Slavery, Affinity, Africa

• The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Devour, Slavery

• Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Tags in Slavery, Machines, Favors

• Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Children, Life

  Tags in Slavery, Born

• Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Topics in America

  Tags in Equality, Slavery, American

• For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

  Jonathan Swift

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Slavery, Reason

• No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery, More, Freedom

• When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the “division” of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Slavery

• To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

  Virginia Woolf

  Tags in Slavery

• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in European, Slavery, Women, Civilization

• Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery, Chance, Tyranny

• There is no slavery but ignorance.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery, Ignorance

• Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Slavery, Mankind

• A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

  Jean de La Bruyere

  Tags in Slavery

• Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.

  James Madison Jr

  Tags in Slavery

• When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Joy, Life, Work

  Tags in Slavery

• Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

  Mike Tyson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery, People