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But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

— Fanny Kemble

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Kate Beckinsale

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

— H. Rap Brown

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

— Thomas Clarkson

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

— Patrick Henry

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

— Andrew Forrest

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

— Frederick Law Olmsted

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

— Harriet Tubman

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

— Frederick Douglass

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

— Muhammad Iqbal

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