Best Slavery Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 29

Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index

“Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.”

Slavery Yoke

Author:Aeschylus

“Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts so that the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 'no one shall be held in slavery or servitude' - ring true.”

“It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.”

People World Way Today Walks Poor Numbers Talking Millions Violence Paid Slavery Slave Surprise Workers Controlled Defining World Today Not Talking Large Numbers Sweatshops

Author:Kevin Bales

“Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about”

Persons Violence Slavery

Author:Kevin Bales

“It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.”

Ifs Has Beens Identity Slavery Slave Stolen

Author:Kevin Bales

“We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods”

Pay Clear Slavery Goods

Author:Kevin Bales

“For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.”

World Firsts Reality Eye Social Born Steps Slavery Slave Diets First Steps Assurance Bondage Enslavement Subsistence New Eyes

Book:Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader

Source: Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader

“Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.”

Children Might Produce Slavery Property Slave Theft Be A Slave Slavery Freedom

Book:Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader

Source: Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader

“Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.”

“On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts to build societies in which slavery truly is a term for the history books.”

Men Children Book Term Effort Dignity Slavery International Inherent Men Women Abolition History Books Abolition Of Slavery

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their liberty, dignity and human rights. We have to work together to realize the equal rights promised to all by the United Nations Charter. And we must collectively give meaning to the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that "no one shall be held in slavery or servitude"”

“We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.”

Humans Two Shows Lasts Purpose Fighting Evil Energy Human Beings Century Slavery Trade Slave Our Time Thrive Abolition Slave Trade Strongholds New Energy Fighting Back

Author:George W. Bush

“Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant voice in running the institutions that affect their lives?”

Should Running Voice Community Should Have Agree Institutions Slavery Structure Slave Workers Over It Dominant Be A Slave

Book:Chomsky on Democracy & Education

Source: Chomsky on Democracy & Education

“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.”

Individual Nations Ignorance Equal Increase Slavery Democratic Equality Proportion Subjection Enamored

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.”

Should Ideas Seems Liberty Creatures Fellows Slavery Incredibles Selling

Author:James Forten

“Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.”

Long Has Beens Hours Existence Cutting Conditions Increase Safety Slavery Workers Killing Missions Protection Tyranny Wages Petty Workshops Sanitary

Book:The American Federationist

Source: The American Federationist

“In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.”

Slavery Slave

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations

“Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations have climbed to power and glory on the backs of slaves. In other times slaves have dwindled in number and economic importance. But never has slavery disappeared.”

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Book:Slavery

Source: Slavery

“Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.”

Together Slavery Slavery Freedom

Author:Ernestine Rose

“Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.”