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Tag Name "Slaves" (497)

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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
Frederick Douglass
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Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
Frederick Douglass
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
Victor Hugo
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Slaves have to obey their masters.
Bill Bright
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Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need.
James Hunter
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Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.
Jeff Smith
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Slaves. though we be enrolled Minds are never to be sold.
David Ruggles
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Slaves cannot breathe in England if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
William Cowper
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Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.
Dennis Green
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When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves.
Diogenes
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We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.
Donald Watson
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Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the weaker sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Frederick Lenz
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What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
Doris Lessing
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Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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At least black people knew when they were slaves you remain clueless.
Doug Stanhope
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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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We are all slaves to the shining metal.
Douglas William Jerrold
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Make us your slaves, but feed us.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
Ed Asner
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When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.
Geoffrey Nunberg
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
Edward Abbey
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