Slavery Quotes - Page 24

Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.

I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.

Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

As far as sex slavery goes, in Canada, if the woman has a Canadian accent, I'm confident that she hasn't been trafficked and forced to work as a prostitute.

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

In 1855, a former American slave remarked: "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is - tis he who has endured."I think the same holds true for women's rights. The incredulity in the question, "What rights don't women have presently that they are marching about?" reflects a troubling disconnect that comes from power and privilege.

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.

From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.