Ideas Quote by Ibn Warraq

Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery…

— Ibn Warraq

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

— Dinesh D'Souza

“Western technology made slavery unnecessary; Western ideas made it intolerable.”

— Bernard Lewis

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But…

— Chuck D

“[T]he West did not invent slavery; the West ended slavery.”

— Pat Buchanan

“Consider three more examples, this time of clashes between postmodernist theory and historical fact. Postmodernists say that the West is deeply racist, but they…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Most so-called success in the world is slavery.”

— Bryant McGill

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

— Ibn Warraq

The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide distribution of…

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

— Jamaica Kincaid

But the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. And America came along as the first country to end it within 150…

— Katie Pavlich

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

— Paul Mooney