British empire Quote by Mak_786

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

— George Bernard Shaw

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

— Benjamin Franklin

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

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.

— James Thomson

“In the early 1600s, for nearly two decades, Virginia and Bermuda were the only English colonies in the New World. Here, for the first…

— Virginia Bernhard

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

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

— William Cowper

Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged in the…

— Daniel Hannan

We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language.

— Trish Regan