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“Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that everything (family, finances, relationships, career) depends primarily on you, you're enslaved to your strengths and weaknesses. You're trying to be your own savior. Freedom comes when we start trusting in God's abilities and wisdom instead of our own. Real life begins when we transfer our trust from our own efforts to the efforts of Christ.”

“When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Made Ideas Progress Example Source Depends Slavery Come Up Crowds Arguing New Ideas

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.”

“There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's social networks. So, you know, historically black and white, they worship together until about the end of slavery, and people started moving out into separate churches. But it was because of discrimination and racism and such that blacks began to establish their own denominations and their own churches.”

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

Form Father Work Depends Slavery Profession

Book:A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

“The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has given his consent, either in person or by his representative; in the latter, he is governed by the will of another. In the one case, his life and property are his own; in the other, they depend upon the pleasure of his master. It is easy to discern which of these two states is preferable.”

Men Persons Two States Law Given Easy Pleasure Liberty Cases Masters Depends Slavery Property Former Distinction Latter Representatives Consent

Book:The Official and Other Papers ...

Source: The Official and Other Papers ...

“The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.”

World Humans Facts Depends Civilization Machines Slavery Slave Insecure Demoralizing

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.”

Culture Found Felt Leader Depends Slavery Spots Oppressed Handicaps Charismatic Limelight

Author:Ella Baker

“Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.”

Littles Wish Depends Slavery Slave Labour My Wish

Book:1769-1793

Source: 1769-1793

“[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.”

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.”

Wells May Children Reality Father Parent Depends Our Children Institutions Slavery Feminist Granted Stability Cynical Arrangements Family Life Misandry Concubines

Author:Sylvia Fraser

“A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.”

People Self Justice Pleasure Fate Depends Slavery Misery Limitation Generosity Offense Admission Impotence Those We Love

Author:Hakim Bey

“Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.”

Men May Reason Form Numbers Pay Poverty Depends Creatures Advantage Claims Independence Slavery Complexes Dependency Kinship Debtors

Author:Andre Gide