Contradiction Quote by David Brion Davis

We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery…

— Sharan Burrow

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

— William H. Seward

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

— Abraham Lincoln

“What could be better for slave owners than slaves who think they’re free? This is the greatest trick ever pulled: a nation of slaves…

— Robert Peate

We must work together, across nations and sectors. Only then will we consign the hideous crime of slavery to the history books.

— Penny Mordaunt

“This is the struggle of every person: be free or be a slave.”

— Pope Francis

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

— Andrew Forrest

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

— David Harvey

We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet.

— Kate Miller

“It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end…

— Adam Smith

Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel…

— Joe Hill

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

— Abraham Lincoln