“Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.” TodayChristianViolenceCenturyGayDoctorsMurderSlaveryTheologyAbortionJustifyDoctor WhoCrusadesLatentChristian Theology Author:Amy Waldman
“The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.” NeedsYearsReasonBodyLightLastsLiteratureTermFiveFourHundredSlaveryTradeSlaveContactJustifySlave Trade Author:Chinua Achebe
“I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.” ChildrenHas BeensUsedOughtVoteSlaveryJustifyFactoriesOffendedFallacy Author:Moby
“Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we see it now - because racism was created to justify slavery to build the capital for capitalism - and back in the day they respected talent over race. We had an African Pope in the late 5th century, we had an African Emperor of Rome, and early church Fathers were black.” KnowsAgeFatherBlackChurchRaceCenturyTalentLateRacismCapitalismSlaveryGreekJustifyRomePopeEmperorBack In The DayChurch Fathers Author:Immortal Technique
“Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.” RacismSlaveryJustifySlaveholders Author:Manisha Sinha
“As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.” SaidStillsSongSlaveryGood ThingsJustifyAbolishing Slavery Author:Dar Williams
“We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them.” HumansImportantUseAnimalCommonResourcesTreatsInstitutionsSlaveryJustifyJustifiedHuman ResourcesSentient BeingsFrancione Author:Gary L. Francione
“How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.” PeopleDoeDoneFactsMoralCrimeMoralitySlaveryJustifyNaziImmoralApartheidLegalityTalismans Author:Walter E. Williams
“The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.” CountryEarthMotherCommonStepsPrinciplesSawsHeardIndependenceInstitutionsSlaveryLipsOppressionHypocrisyJustifySooner Or LaterDeclarationDestinedUnnaturalDeclaration Of IndependenceReproachSyllablesInconsistencyInsincerityMother CountryStep Mother Author:John Quincy Adams