Best slavery & injustice Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.”

“It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.”

“I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.”

Believe Has Beens Spirit Racism Slavery Injustice Usa Repentance Lacking Segregation

Author:David Oyelowo

“We, the Black people of America, were chosen by Allah: Not to be "special" in the sense that we are better than others, but chosen because of the uniqueness of our position inside of America, and 460 years under slavery, neo-slavery, and injustice, to carry a message to the whole of humanity.”

People Years Whole America Humanity Black Special Position Messages Slavery Injustice Chosen Black People Uniqueness

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally. I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.”

Believe Has Beens America Spirit Individual Racism Slavery Injustice Corporate Repentance Lacking Segregation Reconciliation

Author:David Oyelowo

“Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! - defended by pointing out, quite correctly, that this situation of slaves and women had been improving throughout the preceding century. Slaves, in particular, were worked less hard, beaten and raped less frequently, better fed, and less often ripped apart from their families. So would a celebration of moral progress have been appropriate in 1850? Surely not. Slavery could have been and should have been abolished - then, if not before.”

“Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.”

Men May Fighting Evil Individual Goal Poverty Ignorance Revolution Slavery Injustice Variety Reform Collectives Live By Setting Goals Predictable Berlin Fighting Evil

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”

Source: History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards

“... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it... the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.”

People World Needs Earth Together Remember Values Hate Evil White Poor Race Millions Color Labor Rivers Hatred Towns Slavery Injustice Creeds Not Alone Mills White Race

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Hands America Hate I Believe Ready Slavery Injustice Storm Storms Coming

Book:The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference

Source: The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference

“We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.”

Liberty Slavery Injustice Privilege Convinced Socialism Brutality

Book:Bakunin on anarchism

Source: Bakunin on anarchism

“As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.”

World War Evil Goodness Racism Mercy And Love Slavery Dance Instinct Injustice Oppression Genocide Holocaust Rebirth Breeding Love And Freedom

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.”

World Hate Influence Example Republican I Hate Slavery Slave Injustice Monstrous Be A Slave Peoria

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.”

People Self Nations Loss Greatness Honor Safety Slavery Injustice Self Respect Agreement Invites Submission Calamity Great Nations

Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.”

Ifs Looks Easy Views Murder Victim Slavery Injustice Excuse Point Of View Cruelty Inequality Angle Rationalize

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery.”

World Slavery Injustice No Brainer Injustice In The World

Author:Gary Haugen

“I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.”

“I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.”

Years Believe States America I Believe Years Ago Slavery Injustice Painful Symbols Flags Reminders Abraham Confederate

Author:Howard Dean

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