For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.