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A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Slavery
Lysander Spooner

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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Miguel De Cervantes

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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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Vincent Van Gogh

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I cannot be fired. Slaves have to be sold.
Slavery
Source Unknown

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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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William Cowper

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If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Slavery
Wayne Dyer

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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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Pearl S. Buck

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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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Edmund Burke

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
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Seneca

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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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John Ruskin

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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
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Diogenes of Sinope

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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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John Ruskin

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The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
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Thomas La Mance

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