Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

classic quote by Karl Kraus
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Amusing Trial, in Which a Yankee Lawyer Rendered a Just Verdict.

A Slave sold at Auction.
A time there was, when no one thought
It sin, to hold a slave he'd bought,
And of his strength have the command,
As much as of his house and land.
A Yankee Lawyer long had kept
A negro-man with whom he slept.

And ate, and Sabbath day,
He half the time from church would stay;
When Cuff his master's garments wore.—
'Twas strange you say, but he was poor;
And though he cared not for Cuff's soul,
Yet such the times, that on the whole,

'Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, thou art a bitter draught.'—Sterne.
His slave must to the meeting go,
If 'twas for nothing but a show.

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poem by Anonymous Americas
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It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

quote by Kahlil Gibran
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

quote by Mike Tyson
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Black History

Boom, boom, boom!
That was in 1530 to the Slave Trade;
My Mama told me so,
My Papa told me so,
In the name of our ancestors gone by;
Slaves for arms,
Slaves for powder,
Slaves for hardware,
Slaves for spirits;
Boom, boom, boom! !
All over the West Coast of Africa!
Today, i am a Blackman to tell you a story.

Black History, the Black African, the Black Race;
Of my ancestors gone by,
Boom, boom, boom!
Black head, black sugar, black coffee;
Where are the true identities of the Blacks?
That was in 1530 to the Slave trade.

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poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Gifts make slaves.

quote by Levi Strauss
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Socialism means slavery.

quote by Lord Acton
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Slavery is not drudgery.

Virtually I can’t defy
What my little grandson dictates.
I am a slave to him.
Willingly I can’t disobey
What the woman of my love wants.
I am a slave to her.
Slavery is not at all drudgery.
Being a slave is exuberant.
07.03.2010

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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If you call a lady a slave, she laughs, but if you call a slave a slave, he cries.

Indian proverbs
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Poverty is slavery.

African proverbs
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I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

quote by Marion Berry
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Love is a slavery

Slavery is there, in some form, everywhere.
Love, too, is a kind of slavery, unable to desist,
Unable to deny, and is tamed in blind pursuit.
A monarch, too, is a slave to his concubine.
05.02.2000, Palakkad

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Death is better than slavery.

quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs
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This war is not about slavery.

quote by Robert E. Lee
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

quote by Franz Kafka
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No pope ever condemned slavery.

quote by Joseph McCabe
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All socialism involves slavery.

quote by Herbert Spencer
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.

quote by Abraham Lincoln
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The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

quote by George Reisman
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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

quote by Harriet Tubman
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