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“Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.”

Should Mean Causes Natural Perfect Class Mankind Fit Goodness Capable Abuse Slavery Surrender Imperfect Entitled Privileged Submission Perfect Man Very Mean

Author:Albert Meltzer

“Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.”

Firsts Children Persons Soul Perfect Teach Authority Slavery Meat Requirements Unjust Submission Respectable Grinder Small Person

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

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

“Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.”

Should Humans Greater Century Expression Broken Activity Slavery Barriers Artificial Womens Rights Submission Crave Assertion Truest Emancipation

Book:Emma Goldman

Source: Emma Goldman

“The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are worthless creatures only fit for hellfire. It tells them that their culture is jahelyyah (ignorance) and their ancestral religion was taaghoti (satanic). They are made to despise their identity and selfhood and seek their glory in their submission to Islam and slavery to its deity who was Muhammad's own alter ego.”

Firsts Doe Made Self Culture Identity Ignorance Fit Creatures Ego Glory Slavery Islam Believer Convince Despise Worthless Submission Deities Muhammad Satanic Alter Ego

Author:Ali Sina

“The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in producing] a long habit of submission... [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.”

Should Long America Class Special Habit England Institutions Slavery Boundaries Submission Aristocratic

Author:John Bright

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.”

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was "settled" that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were "final;" not slavery and oppression.”

Men Humanity Justice Liberty Revolution Quiet Slavery Tyranny Oppression Peaceful Submission Bondage

Author:Frederick Douglass

“North Korea's sin is that it refuses to surrender, to fall on its knees, to sacrifice its people. It refuses to become a slave. For centuries, European and later US colonialism punished such defiance in the most brutal ways. Western culture is, after all, based and built on slavery. It demands absolute compliance, unconditional submission. If North Korea is attacked, it should fight back! And it will.”

People Fall Culture Fighting Sin Sacrifice Slavery Slave Western Surrender Brutal Submission Unconditional North Korea Defiance

Author:Andre Vltchek

“The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!”

“There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.”

People Self Nations Loss Greatness Honor Safety Slavery Injustice Self Respect Agreement Invites Submission Calamity Great Nations

Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“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

“Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'”

Half Principles Republican Universal Slavery Strikes Substitutes Submission Banner Suffrage One Half Universal Suffrage

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.”

Doe Soul Matter Cutting Slavery Submission Whips Thongs

Book:The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War

Source: The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War

“Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.”

Reality Literature Left Progress Slavery Terror Reactions Submission Robbing

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays