Crime Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine

“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction”

— Simón Bolívar

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile…

— Hinton Rowan Helper

“There may be humane masters, as there certainly are inhuman ones—there may be slaves well-clothed, well-fed, and happy, as there surely are those half-clad,…

— Solomon Northup

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking…

— David Rice

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime…

— Albert Camus

The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.

— Juan Somavia

“There have been, and may be again, great individual thinkers, in a general atmosphere of mental slavery.”

— John Stuart Mill

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source…

— Benjamin Franklin

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all…

— Bertrand Russell

“let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart…

— Solomon Northup

“There are no gods, paladin. There is no afterlife, no eternal reward. You, in fact, are a slave to a creature you cannot even…

— Alec Hutson