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The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

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Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

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Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

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The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist.

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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

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Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.

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