Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.
Craig Brown
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The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
William H. Seward
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If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.
Ntozake Shange
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Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.
Lupita Nyong'o
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From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
Henry Charles Carey
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Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.
George Tillman, Jr.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Ezra Pound
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Alexander Pope
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A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
Theophile Gautier
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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James Connolly
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Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
Edwin Booth
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
L. Neil Smith
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
H. Rap Brown
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
Baltasar Gracian
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The camera is the slave to the actor.
John Cassavetes
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Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
Angelina Grimke
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If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.
Stefan Molyneux
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I think '12 Years a Slave' really helped me, as a person and as a student, to grow.
Storm Reid
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At times, I can be a slave to money.
Jay IDK
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To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
Denis Kearney
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Aristotle
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
Noam Chomsky
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