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“The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.”

Money Liberty Slavery Instruments Strive

Book:The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, transl

Source: The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, transl

“The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.”

Social Civilization Organization Slavery Instruments Expansion Social Organization

Author:Carroll Quigley

“Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.”

People Has Beens Used Ignorance Tools Slavery Instruments

Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.”

Hands Given Dying Slavery Instruments Faculty Assistance Villainy Writs Of Assistance

Author:James Otis

“So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.”

Men Hands Might Political Lying Hate Brain Slavery Instruments Available Gas Despise Efficient Chamber Washing Shiver Fingerprints Political Change Gas Chambers

Author:Bernard Baruch

“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

“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.”

Source: The kingdom of God: and peace essays

“Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults”

Giving Children War Hate Force Expression Becoming Adults Hatred Slavery Instruments Killing Soldier Violent Compelled Child Soldier

Author:Olara Otunnu

“And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, - the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.”