“Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.” FightingMistakePovertyRichShareSlaverySlaveDefeatNeighborCowardlyEnviousObjections Book:Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme Source: Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme
“[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.” FeelsStatesGovernmentUnitedMistakeUnited StatesSlaveryApologizingAbolishState GovernmentUnited States Government Author:Jeff Cooper
“Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.” KnowsMenMayDoeMatterEvilLosesMistakeHe ManMastersGoldSlaveryNobleHypocrisyInfamy Author:Baltasar Gracian
“Throughout history we have seen the tyranny of the powerful over the less powerful - think of the history of colonialism or of slavery - and the tragic mistakes made when important information was not "heard" or valued.” ThinkingImportantPowerfulMistakeSlaveryTyrannyTragic Author:Mary C. Gentile
“The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree the definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.” WantLifeActionFreedomMistakePrinciplesDemocracyGreaterDegreesSlaveryCommitEmancipationSustainingProclamationEmancipation Proclamation Author:Aberjhani
“So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.” MenWayDoeWishMistakeWrittenHe ManProveLowsSlaveryGood ThingsSlaveVery GoodSelfishVolumeBe A SlaveAmerican SlaverySlavery In America Author:Abraham Lincoln