Disgraceful Quote by George Mason

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

— Anonymous

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

It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people…

— Vandana Shiva

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their…

— William Loughton Smith

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

— Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

— John Ridley

Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

— Sharan Burrow

Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our soil or…

— Mark Meadows

So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the…

— William Wilberforce

“An economy built on slave labor is vulnerable in two ways. One, availability of forced labor discourages technical innovation. The very wealthy [Roman]empire experienced…

— Norman F. Cantor

Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded…

— George Mason