"Death is better than slavery."

Death, Slavery

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."

Stephen King, American Author

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"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Easter is the final solution to the finality of death."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."

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"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."

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"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

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"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."

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"I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."

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"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."

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"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."

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"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."

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"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."

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