Ned Sublette Quotes
That now-archaic word “likely,” ubiquitous in slave sale advertisements, had a cluster of converging meanings: vigorous, strong, capable, good-looking, attractive, promising—in other words, likely to reproduce.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
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No more slave States and no more slave territory.
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Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
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Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.
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It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.
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A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.
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Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
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It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
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This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
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To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
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The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.
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Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
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Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.
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I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.
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There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
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Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
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I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.
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That now-archaic word “likely,” ubiquitous in slave sale advertisements, had a cluster of converging meanings: vigorous, strong, capable, good-looking, attractive, promising—in other words, likely to reproduce.
