" When a man's fate is not his own, when he may die at the behest of a man born luckier or wealthier, when he sweats all his life for scraps from another mans table, then he is in peril." Daichi's eyes glittered in the half light. "But when he accepts it in his heart, when he ceases to struggle against that fundamental injustice, then he is a slave. "

― Jay Kristoff , Stormdancer (The Lotus Wars, #1)