Slave Mentality Source Sheet

Every time Israel went through a time of lack, they always played the death card. They just knew that every challenge was going to kill them. Things would change, alright – they would get worse. And Israel believed that death was certain and more desirable than life as it was. Someone with a slave mentality thinks about death and suicide in times of crisis. Checking out seems more appealing than living another day. If you’ve even felt like this, understand that this is Satan’s way of getting rid of another valuable soldier. http://www.markandnicki.com/

The Israelites still have a slave mentality and are afraid to confront the inhabitants of Canaan even though Adonoi has promied that they will be victorious (Sol Scharfstein) ​

The result of this slave mentality will be a certain instability within the national mood of the people. They are fickle. One moment they can be uplifted by the soaring euphoria of the miracle at the Red Sea and the next minute, all has been forgotten; they might as well be back in Egypt. When crisis hits, the people panic and all the theological truths disappear as if into thin air.

-Rav Alex Israel

http://www.alexisrael.org/#!beshalach---slave-mentality/cqjg

At first I was rather disappointed that fellow clergymen would see my nonviolent efforts as those of an extremist. I began thinking about the fact that I stand in the middle of two opposing forces in the Negro community. One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self respect and a sense of "somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation;

-MLK

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html