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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Freedom Free Believe Enslaved Those Hopelessly More None Falsely Than Who

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. William Blake

Business Will Enslaved System Must Another Create Mans Reason Compare

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. Thomas Sowell

Today People Fate Made Worse Ancestors Enslaved Those Would Born Put Instead Terrible Were Been Off America Africa Them Who Descendants Differently Slavery

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. William Inge

Environmental Religion Animal Feathers Rest Devil Doubt Creation Fur Our Distant Enslaved Would Able Badly Beyond Cousins Were Human Depict Form Formulate Human Form Treated

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it. Maya Angelou

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years. Malcolm X

You Other Enslaved Cheek Years Turn

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. Carter G. Woodson

Education Good Needs People Others Enslaved Those Out Has-Been Weaker More Because Does However Been Oppressed Than Modern Modern Education So-Called Conformity Worked Much Who Defects

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able. F. Sionil Jose

Become Think Earth Enslaved Must Able Only Shallow Glitter Goods Because Material Materialism Grab Gold Which While Us Much Gross Reason Therefore Satisfy

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. Alice Walker

Love Culture Natural People World Enslaved Out Grew Which Natural World

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering. Anohni

Today War Creative Women Wealth Men Power Engineering Extraction Appropriate Mineral Enslaved Ruthless Attempted Mass Genetic Genetic Engineering Female Surveillance Gods Forms Themselves Assault Creators Millennia

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. Anwar Sadat

People Enslaved Possess Seek Most Very Want After Acquire Things

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. Bao Dai

Citizen Country Enslaved Independent Would Rather Emperor Than Prefer

We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in which they were treated. I think that has damaged the future of many African-American people. Some have risen above it quite nobly, but it has impacted generations, and we have to be able to own that as part of the past. Blase J. Cupich

Future People Country Past Own Think Enslaved Future Generations Able Impacted Some Above Risen Only Never Part Generations Nobly Were Owned Done Quite African-American Which Who Many Treated Damage Damaged

When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn't want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me. Bryan Stevenson

Education Me People Law School Thought First Year Enslaved Diminish Harvard Law School Colored Know Want Them Might Started

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved. Demi Moore

Enslaved Person

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. Henry Miller

Man Strange Fear Matter Nothing Once Enslaved Guise About Something Him Without Itself Familiar Which Who Appears Presents

I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology. Joshua Cohen

Life Time Me Technology People Feeling Become Live Rage Other Machine Enslaved Entirely General My Time Prevents Demands Like Forced Becoming Being Want Victimized Resentful

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved. Kate Beckinsale

Think Enslaved More No-One Than Who Slave

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia. Loretta Napoleoni

People Own Enslaved See Colonies Countrymen Powers Withdrew Foreign Were Foreign Powers Africa Asia Actually Slavery

I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen. Loretta Napoleoni

Democracy People Berlin Wall Fall Own Enslaved Berlin Correlation Rise Between Countries Countrymen Democratic Became Spreading Wall So-Called After Former Communist Found Now Started Slavery

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