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“Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people expose themselves to the danger of being weak, no one can tell when they will be reduced to slavery.”

People Long Able Individual Race Conditions Danger Protect Weak Slavery

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.”

Soul Character Individual Strong Air Fashion Prove Slavery Badges Strong Individuals

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts

“The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.”

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?”

Whole Form Desire Individual Community Responsibility Essentials Benefits Labor Relation Slavery Slave Socialism Oppression Compelled Taxation Coercion Essential Questions

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.”

Humans Philosophy Individual Human Beings Results Existence Achieve Objects Slavery Recognition Consideration Abolition Affirming Philosophic Abolition Of Slavery

Author:Gilbert Simondon

“At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.”

Firsts Individual Ideals Slavery Libertarian Passages Isolated Relevance

Author:Bernard Bailyn

“Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]”

Individual Nations Liberty Slavery

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”

Home America Individual Sin Race Family Horror Destruction Slavery Instinct Shelter Savages Relentless Cardinals Race In America

Author:Fannie Barrier Williams

“Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.”

War Form Individual Slavery Hostility

Author:Klas Pontus Arnoldson

“Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.”

Men World May Mean Use Individual Liberty Modern Weapons Absolutes Slavery Possession Liberation Perceive Mastery Modern World Deprivation Bereft

Book:A History of Warfare

Source: A History of Warfare

“Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.”

“...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

“It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image”

“Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop gouverner' are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.”

Kind War Facts Political Individual Economy Position Theory Fundamentals Slavery All Kinds Maxims Free Society Laissez Faire Political Economy

Book:Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

Source: Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

“The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.”

People Want Individual Black Rights Movement Protect Slavery Civil Rights Minorities Treatment Black People Colonialism Apologizing Imperialism Civil Rights Movement

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it's not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument.”

“I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally. I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.”

Believe Has Beens America Spirit Individual Racism Slavery Injustice Corporate Repentance Lacking Segregation Reconciliation

Author:David Oyelowo

“I don't think that Donald Trump represents the traditional Republican values and heritage of my party. That's one reason that I don't support him. The Republican Party has always revered the individual. We led the way in abolishing slavery, for example, and we recognize the dignity and worth of every human being. it is clear that Donald Trump, by his derogatory comments, by his mocking of the most vulnerable people in our society, by his marginalization of ethnic and religious minorities, doesn't reflect the traditional Republican values.”

People Thinking Reason Values Individual Religious Party Support Republican Dignity Slavery Vulnerable Comment Republican Party

Author:Gwen Ifill

“Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.”

Men May Fighting Evil Individual Goal Poverty Ignorance Revolution Slavery Injustice Variety Reform Collectives Live By Setting Goals Predictable Berlin Fighting Evil

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.”

May Individual Slavery Herds

Book:Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)

“If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

“I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.”

Heart Individual Race Habit My Heart Prejudice Slavery Blind Bottom Pity Unfortunate

Author:Booker T. Washington

“When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.”

Government Individual Goal Members Slavery Advancement Embedded Betterment

Book:Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?”

Individual Slavery Privilege Boxes Voting Monopoly Ballots

Author:Benjamin Tucker

“The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.”

“Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.”

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”

States Seems Lying Individual Liberty Philosophical Slavery Excess Individual Liberty

Author:Plato

“Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life and death. Religions introduce us not to God but to slavery. They deprive us of our freedom to explore our own souls and to discover the endless and wondrous possibilities presented to us by an infinite universe. And most often the method of religions is fear, not love. They demand blind obedience and often obedience to dreadful dogma.”

Source: Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life

“The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.”

Should War States Problem Individual Left Causes Slavery Excuse Compromise Civil War Intervention Prohibition Causes Of War

Author:Eustace Mullins

“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.”

Individual Nations Ignorance Equal Increase Slavery Democratic Equality Proportion Subjection Enamored

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Someday our grandchildren will very likely look back at the individual, selfish control of the wealth of the world by a small elite the same way we view slavery today.”

World Way Looks Today Individual Wealth Views Slavery Selfish Someday Elites Grandchildren Slavery Today

Book:Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out

Source: Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out

“Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.”

World Happens Individual Security Agree Slavery Liberation Abandonment Outcast Chimera Banishment

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.”