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"If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own."
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"We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us."
"The oppressor is never as free as they think they are."
"The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom, it was the lack of desiring freedom."
"When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive."
"To Survive In A Ruined World, She Must Embrace The Darkness."
"When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors."
"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"
"Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
"Slaves in the past were captured by force, today's slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized) who would not lift a hand against a fellow human being! They have established economic systems that perpetuate their superiority so the poor are blamed either for their laziness or their fate."
"Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress."
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"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace."
"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
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