Civil war Quote by Adam Hochschild

And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped…

— Adam Hochschild

“In little more than a generation, the Belgian king’s yearning for empire and fortune may have killed ten million people in the territory—half of…

— Howard W. French

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other…

— Frederick Douglass

“The existence of Slavery in its most cruel form among them, has a tendency to brutalize the humane and finer feelings of their nature.…

— Solomon Northup

Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and…

— Thomas Sowell

I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help…

— Andrew Forrest

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears…

— Henry Charles Carey

There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts we wear…

— Ben H. Winters

The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of…

— Blase J. Cupich

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

— Karl Marx

“If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a…

— John Quincy Adams