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Slavery Quotes
On bondage, freedom, and an unfinished history.
These lines address slavery mainly through history: a hope for compromise before change occurred, ongoing modern efforts to identify and stop forced labor, and reflections on how one person's freedom has often depended on someone else's bondage. See History quotes for related context.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Foreign Powers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.
- Most
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Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.
- American Revolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific.
- Nothing
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If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.
- Peace
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Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.
- Live
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
- Blot
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
- Permanent
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As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No pope ever condemned slavery.
- Emerged
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When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.
- Society
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Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.
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- Nov 07, 2020