“Free yourself, just as the slave seek for full freedom from his/her master.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.”
Original text: Qui cherche dans la liberté autre chose qu'elle-même est fait pour servir. <br class="br">Variant translation: The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. <br class="br">Old Regime (1856), p. 204 http://books.google.com/books?id=N50aibeL8BAC&pg=PA204&vq=%22He+who+seeks+freedom%22&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1 <br class="br">1850s and later
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Context: Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice? What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast? We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defences only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
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Context: Nobody is to be blamed for being born a slave; but a slave who not only eschews a striving for freedom but justifies and eulogies his slavery (e. g., calls the throttling of Poland and the Ukraine, etc., a "defense of the fatherland" of the Great Russians") - such a slave is a lickspittle and a boor, who arouses a legitimate feeling of indignation, contempt, and loathing.
“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear;
The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”
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Act I, sc. iii.
The Lady's Trial (1638)