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“At the other extremity of the circle, unanimity recurs; this is the case when the citizens, having fallen into servitude, have lost both liberty and will.”
―
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
,
The Social Contract
topic:
freedom
slavery
will
“I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.”
―
Frederick Douglass
,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
topic:
slavery
“Even that has its reason; it is often better to be in chains than to be free.”
―
Franz Kafka
,
The Trial
topic:
freedom
slavery
“I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a...”
―
Frederick Douglass
,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
topic:
slavery
spirit
“Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now . . . if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.”
―
Frederick Douglass
,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
topic:
learning
slavery
oppression
“My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.”
―
Frederick Douglass
,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
topic:
slavery
cowardice
“A woman's standard of truthfulness was tacitly held to be lower: she was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.”
―
Edith Wharton
,
The Age of Innocence
topic:
truth
woman
slavery
“To decide that the son of a slave is born a slave is to decide that he is not born a man.”
―
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
,
The Social Contract
topic:
freedom
humanity
slavery
“For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”
―
Frederick Douglass
,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
topic:
religion
slavery
cruelty
“There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.”
―
William Shakespeare
,
Measure for Measure
topic:
slavery
judgement
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