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“Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.”

Ifs Way Today Slavery Slave Profit Myth Quests Suspicion Ignored Insatiable Pernicious

Book:Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?”

Ifs America Church Modern Slavery What If Ministry Human Trafficking Modern Slavery

Author:Dillon Burroughs

“Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.”

Ifs Heaven Promise Slavery Arise Occasions Betrayed Fear Not Fear Nothing

Author:Saint Patrick

“I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.”

Ifs Stills Motivational Guy Ability Wonder Racism Slavery African American Inferiors Philanthropy Other Guys Doubted

Author:Hank Aaron

“If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.”

Ifs Made Government Blame Slavery Lays Vices Heavy Rulers Distress

Author:Solon

“As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.”

“If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?”

Ifs Children Littles Mother Mouths Slavery Guilt Slave Hearing Guilty Inaction Robbing Abolitionist Guilty Conscience Not Guilty Suffragists

Author:Lucy Stone

“If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.”

Ifs States Lost Vote Slavery

Author:Jesse Jackson

“If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.”

Ifs Feels Proud Slavery Colonialism Apologetic

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.”

Ifs Humans Children Shows Pain Desire Pay Attention Rights Theory Labor Slavery Species Pay Attention Womens Rights Abolish Parental Parental Love Child Labor Love Pain Child Labour

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?”

Ifs Men Earth Father Slavery Brave Slave Breathe Boast

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.”

People Ifs World Way Doe Country America White Race Blood Slavery Sweat Prosperous Brows White Race Prosperous Country

Author:Josephine Baker

“The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.”

Ifs Hate Levels Party Republican Slavery Intolerance Republican Party Irrelevant Abraham Mccain

Author:Ed Rollins