“When people speak of great men, they think of men like Napoleon - men of violence. Rarely do they think of peaceful… — Charles Fox Copy Share Image
“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of… — George Grey Copy Share Image
“It was not that “slave trade profits” flowed through some fiendish channels into the dark satanic mills. But the burgeoning Atlantic trade… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
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In 1807, Britain led the way in abolishing the global slave trade. In 2015, Theresa May built on that historic achievement with… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of… — Erik Dammann Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
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“The lives of the older Da Silvas were empty and sad. They mourned the Slave Trade as a lost Golden Age when… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.” — Tanja Kobasic Copy Share Image
It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
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