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Slave

(noun) A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

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"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
— Henry David Thoreau
"The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave."
— George Washington
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
— Abraham Lincoln
"Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves."
— James Baldwin
"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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