Top 100 Free Slavery Quotes

#1. A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.

Eric Foner

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#2. Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

William H. Seward

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#3. Liberate your Mind Black Child ,free your self from Mental slavery.

Nkosinathi Mehlomakulu

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#4. The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.

Henry Adams

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#5. The work of redemption was accomplished by Christ in His death on the cross and has in view the payment of the price demanded by a holy God for the deliverance of the believer from the bondage and burden of sin. Inredemption the sinner is set free from his condemnation and slavery to sin.

John F. Walvoord

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#6. The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.

Wafa Sultan

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#7. It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.

Louis J. Halle

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#8. Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

Stephen Douglas

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#9. We're not mindless golems, designed to think exactly the same thing. To try to suppress those thoughts is no better than slavery, and being free to say what you want, write what you want or draw what you want, as long as it doesn't offend anyone... That's no freedom at all.

T.J. Dixon

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#10. Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search for self rather than the expression and communication of one who has already found himself, and is free from resort to sex in the frantic pursuit of his own identity.

William Stringfellow

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#11. Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

Marie Leszczynska

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#12. Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment. The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time.

Nikolai Berdyaev

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#13. Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy 'cause none of them can stop the time.

Bob Marley

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#14. Freedom is the choice to be free than to be a slave.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#15. Blind faith in belief-system, ideologies, doctrine or dogma can never set us free. Only the knowledge of truth can liberate us from the slavery of doctrine, dogmas, blind faiths and religious sects.

Banani Ray

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#16. Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret
there, I have seen is slavery.

Mary Renault

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#17. Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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#18. The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.

Samuel Eliot Morison

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#19. Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

Robert Frost

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#20. Slavery is impossible without the consent of the slave. Fear imprisons the mind, Faith. You either accept this prison by following the rules made by others. Or you break free, by making your own.

Christofer Emgard

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#21. We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign.

Marcus Garvey

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#22. We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's take the next impossible, do it with joy and get it finished with and create a world free from poverty. Let us create the world of our choice.

Muhammad Yunus

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#23. The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.

Augustine Of Hippo

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#24. If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

Michael Shaara

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#25. I can only be free when the other people around me are free.

Jordan Jones

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#26. Not democracy caused the downfall of Athens, as the European glorifiers of princes and lickspittle schoolmasters would have us believe, but slavery ostracizing the labor of the free citizen. The

Friedrich Engels

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#27. It seems to me that the term 'free will' is one of the most manipulated and exploited terms. The real explanation of free will is not that you have free will but that your will can eventually make you free, that will can liberate you, that will can release you from slavery.

Torkom Saraydarian

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#28. Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.

Henry Cloud

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#29. As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.

Butterfly McQueen

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#30. To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.

Idries Shah

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#31. YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!

Widad Akreyi

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#32. When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

Herman Melville

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#33. But there's no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

Lauren DeStefano

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#34. One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers at the buying point saying, 'Can you certify to me that this product is slavery-free?' And most cannot right now.

Mira Sorvino

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#35. No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.

Yaa Gyasi

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#36. Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

Frederick Douglass

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#37. Freedom's never been free, there's always been a price to be paid, but people have forgotten; they're handing their freedom, their lives, over like well behaved puppets on a string ... slavery is returning by choice.

L.M. Fields

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#38. I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

Abraham Lincoln

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#39. Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Aesop

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#40. There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

William H. Seward

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#41. You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.

Darnell Lamont Walker

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#42. I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

Norman Lock

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#43. Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they're not enslaved, then what are they? Free?

Gary Yourofsky

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#44. It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country

Sunday Adelaja

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#45. Debt is the slavery of the free

Publilius Syrus

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#46. God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.

Millard Fillmore

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#47. We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

Swami Vivekananda

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#48. We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

Abraham Lincoln

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#49. The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

Friedrich Engels

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#50. George, I know you're tired. But President Lincoln, he didn't free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.-George's Grandmother.

George Dawson

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#51. I don't want you to be free from something, I simply want you to be free. See the difference: Freedom from is never total; that "from" keeps it entrapped with the past. Freedom from can never be real freedom. Neither can freedom for ever be real freedom; that is a search for a new slavery.

Osho

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#52. Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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#53. The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.

Michel Templet

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#54. Free your mind and free yourself from brand slavery.

Bryant McGill

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#55. This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

Ludwig Von Mises

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#56. In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus began my journey into exploring modern-day slavery.

Lisa Kristine

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#57. When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

Edmund Burke

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#58. We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.

Mary E. DeMuth

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#59. The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

Darnell Lamont Walker

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#60. Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#61. We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

William H. Seward

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#62. If I own a business, I work for myself. And if I have no revenue, I work for free. That's not slavery. That'll be the case when I employ 1,000,000,000 clones of myself. I won't pay them, but they are me, so it's not slavery.

Jarod Kintz

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#63. 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.

George Fitzhugh

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#64. I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

Abraham Lincoln

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#65. Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

William Lloyd Garrison

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#66. As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#67. Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

Gerry Spence

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#68. Embodiments know not what slavery may be where minds in shackles and chains put nature to shame
Mind, shallow or neat, are found where thoughts may run deep, a family whereacceptance is free, and readers where reception is key.
Say minds may run free.

Dew Platt

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#69. THIRTEEN GREAT ICONS FELL FROM THE SKY, WHEN THEY CAME ALIVE, SIX CITIES DIED. REMEMBER 6/6. THE PROJECTS ARE SLAVERY. WE ARE NOT FREE. SILENCE IS NOT PEACE. REMEMBER THE DAY. DEATH TO THE SYMPAS, DEATH TO THE LORDS. DESTROY THE ICONS. REMEMBER.

Margaret Stohl

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#70. From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

Booker T. Washington

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#71. This was the difference between a free kingdom and slavery, happiness and misery, life and death.

Sara Raasch

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#72. The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1

Alexis De Tocqueville

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#73. The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#74. As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes of slavery, segregation, colonialism and genocide; piss me off and I'll add fascism and the Nazis.

Greg Erwin

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#75. Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

Abraham Lincoln

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#76. Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the safest slavery, to peace bought with ignorance, cowardice, and submission?

CrimethInc.

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#77. Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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#78. And oft the blessed time foretells
When all men shall be free;
And musical, as silver bells,
Their falling chains shall be.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#79. While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

Tullian Tchividjian

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#80. If I say you are not free to associate with me, it also means I too am not free to associate with you. I might call you the slave but not less bound by the slavery I have created.- Prince Ikan

Ray Anyasi

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#81. ...it is not enough to be free
of the whips, principalities and powers

Edward Kamau Brathwaite

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#82. The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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#83. The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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#84. More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.

Mira Sorvino

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#85. In short, Christmas is God's answer to the slavery of self-salvation. Jesus came to liberate us from the pressure of having to fix ourselves, find ourselves, and free ourselves.

Tullian Tchividjian

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#86. A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

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#87. Slaves do not have the bravery of free men.

Pierce Brown

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#88. The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

Joyce Meyer

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#89. Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slop kettles!

William Cobbett

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#90. War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

Heraclitus

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#91. That was when I realized we weren't born to be
slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master of another. We were all meant to be free, and somewhere there were good people helping to heal this broken world.

Jay Grewal

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#92. No community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

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#93. < ... > black slavery was basic and integral to the entire phenomenon we call "America." This often hidden or disguised truth ultimately involves the profound contradiction of a free society that was made possible by black slave labor.

David Brion Davis

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#94. In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

Abraham Lincoln

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#95. Slavery was endemic in the classical world and huge numbers of men, women and children, the captives of Rome's ceaseless wars, flooded into Italy. Slaves provided a cheap workforce, contributing significantly to unemployment among free-born citizens.

Anthony Everitt

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#96. Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Karl Marx

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#97. Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

Robert Southey

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#98. Education is for freedom - freedom from mental slavery.

Ogwo David Emenike

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#99. This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow them to. Don't let them! Seek instead the things of God. He will purify you and free you from your slavery to profane and inconsequential things.

Patrick Madrid

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#100. Every time I embrace a black woman I'm embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I'm hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death ... . I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.

Eldridge Cleaver

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