The War and Russian Social-Democracy (September 1917), The Lenin Anthology
1910s
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.
“In the case of the exploitation of slave labor, by contrast, things are exceedingly clear. Slaves, who exist as a sort of animal owned by another human being, have no freedom. Like a dog, a slave is unable to exercise any degree of physical or mental freedom.”
Exploitation of Labor (1967)
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Itsurō Sakisaka 4
Japanese economist 1897–1985Related quotes
Young India (15 December 1921)
1920s
“Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.”
Source: The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), p. 162
“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.
Variant translation: The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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
1850s and later
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Speech in the House of Commons (18 November, 1783). Compare: "And with necessity, / The tyrant's plea, / excus'd his devilish deeds", John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book iv, line 393.
Source: 2000s, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000), p. 212
“Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom”
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 77.
Source: 1850s, Letter to Henry L. Pierce (1859), p. 377