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“And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.”

Earth Sea Son Bears Plant Slave Wave Columbia Be A Slave

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose

“Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.”

Men Earth Lord Source Machines Mathematics Slave Intellect Wicked

Book:the Man Without Qualities

Source: the Man Without Qualities

“Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us today. The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.”

“Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.”

Years Earth Found Promise Slave Rounds

Book:John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

Source: John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

“The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.”

Earth Faces Victory Green Slave Drunkards Green Earth

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”

Men Feels Earth Goal Christianity Groups Victory Morality Achievement Ultimate Blessed Slave Triumph Impulse Captains Accused Competence Supremacy Meek Sagacity

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the poor slaves, they're nought but airy mist, a light breeze scatters them, a fragrance knocks them down; it's only just they crawl on the earth on hands and knees. Today I'll write a hymn to God and pray for this great grace.”

Writing Soul Hands Light Today Earth Poor Grace Brother Praying Slave Pity Knees My Brother Breeze Fragrance Mist Hymns Airy Gallantry

Book:The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

Source: The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

“I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.”

Made War Light Earth Belief Dark Mankind Position Produce Intellectual Spring Slave Corners Absurd Rejoice Reverse Globes Freeman Enquiry Liberality

Book:The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789

Source: The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789

“Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.”

Earth Atheism Slave Positive Atheism Organized Formal Consolation

Book:Health & Wealth

Source: Health & Wealth

“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No -- we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”

People World Earth America Fighting Born Liberty Rights Military Son Citizens Thirds Property Slave Dare Republic Frozen Peasants Czars

Author:Andrew Jackson

“I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.”

Children Action Earth Parent Born Slave

Book:Slave Narrative Six Pack 2

Source: Slave Narrative Six Pack 2

“You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.”