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 Be a governess! Better be a slave at once!
  Charlotte Bronte

 Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.
  James Allen

 The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

 Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
  Emile M. Cioran

 The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
  Mahatma Gandhi

 My slave mother dances, and my slave father sings; I practice devotional worship to You, O my Sovereign Lord.

 He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
  Saint Augustine

 My mother is Your slave, and my father is Your slave; I am the child of Your slaves.

 To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.

 The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the worl

 Allah sets forth an example: There is a slave in whom are (several) partners differing with one another, and there is another slave wholly owned by one man. Are the two alike in condition? (All) praise is due to Allah. Nay! most of them do not know.

 It was like a dream coming true, like I was coming into the league all over again, ... It was almost like hearing the commissioner call your name again on that stage. That's the way I felt. Just to see it, man, I don't know. It was almost like, and I know I shouldn't say this because it sounds so harsh, but it was like I was a slave getting his slave papers.

 If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.
  Mikhail Bakunin

 There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother
  Henry Ward Beecher

 If the Lord were to set me upon a throne, I would still be His slave. If I were a grass-cutter, I would still chant the Lord's Name. Servant Nanak is the slave of the Lord; contemplate the Glorious Greatness of the Lord


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