But it required a disastrous internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

Wealth is a tool of freedom but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all rich or poor or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

I wanted to be a great white hunter a prospector for gold or a slave trader. But then when I was eight my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love making the same hurtful mistakes over and over a slave to neuroses fear and the habitual.

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.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

One person may need (or want) more leisure another more work one more adventure another more security and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country indeed a state a city a church or a family healthy. 'One-size-fits-all ' and that size determined by the State has a name and that name is 'slavery.'

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage as I like to put it and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

The breakdown of the black community in order to maintain slavery began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason to my liberty and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Action and faith enslave thought both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection criticism and doubt.

If Liberia has failed then it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Although we have in theory abolished human slavery recognized women's rights and stopped child labor we continue to enslave other species who if we simply pay attention show quite clearly that they experience parental love pain and the desire for freedom just as we do.