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“Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.”

Knows May Young Duty Slavery Obligation Brands

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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

Life Success Life Is Joy Work Pleasure Duty Labor Slavery Work Effort Joy In Work

Author:Maxim Gorky

“When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.”

Hours Willing Duty Cost Slavery

Book:Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States

Source: Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States

“...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.”

Believe Matter Character Individual I Believe Sin Responsibility Crime Masters Duty Slavery Slave South Oppression Robbery Rebuke Individual Responsibility

Author:Angelina Grimke

“One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.”

Ifs Use Hands Religious Interesting Duty Advantage Crisis Slavery Privilege Usefulness

Book:Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

“I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.”

Should May States Hands Seems Natural Liberty Clear Dying Duty Slavery Unions Dues Paradox Paramount New Places Natural Death Free State

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the same religion practice its precepts... by agreeing to this duty.”

Humanity Christianity Principles Practice Duty Europe Universal Slavery Introducing Benevolence Truest Brotherly Brotherly Love

Book:Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe

Source: Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe

“He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.”

Doe Truth Duty Slavery Exile

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.”

Duty Equal Members Slavery Prison Slave Bounds Equality Great Things Spy

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky