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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, War, Democracy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.