Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of wom…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems, p.349, Bantam Classics
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