Slavery’s fundamental offense against human rights

"Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that it excluded a certain category of people even from the possibility of fighting for freedom -- a fight possible under tyranny, and even under the desperate conditions of modern terror (but not under any conditions of concentration-camp life)"(ARENDT, The Origins of Totalitarianism, p.297, 1951 ).