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 I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community 
can constitute a state. I think we read more 
 I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community 
can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we 
must get rid of freedom. 
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
 Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, 
that moment they are free.
 [Lat., read more 
 Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, 
that moment they are free.
 [Lat., Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliae fines penetraverint 
eodem momento liberi sunt.] 
 In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the 
free,--honorable alike in what we give and what read more 
 In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the 
free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. 
 It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of 
His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery read more 
 It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of 
His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme 
acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological 
inexactitude. 
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
 Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
 Receive our air, that moment they are free;
  They read more 
 Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
 Receive our air, that moment they are free;
  They touch our country, and their shackles fall. 
 He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master 
who should be slave.
 [Lat., Fit in read more 
 He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master 
who should be slave.
 [Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.] 
 Execrable son! so to aspire
 Above his brethren, to himself assuming
  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.
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 Execrable son! so to aspire
 Above his brethren, to himself assuming
  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.
   He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
    Dominion absolute; that right we hold
     By his donation; but man over men
      He made not lord; such title to himself
       Reserving, human left from human free.