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We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless…We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action…No action. – Michael Jackson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave! – Constantin Brancusi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. – Sir William Drummond	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. – George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. – Bertrand Russell, from the essay "The Science to Save Us From Science"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own. – Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave. – Klopstock	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune. – Jean De La Bruyere	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Mannon is the largest slave-holder in the world. – Frederick Saunders	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. – Helen Keller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. – Andrew Carnegie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham. – Frederick Douglas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am a galley slave to pen and ink. – Honore' de Balzac	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave. – Euripides	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison . . . the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls Who steals my purse steals trash 'tis something, nothing 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model. – Vincent Van Gogh	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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