Quote by Thomas Sowell Download Open image ““Most of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were purchased, rather than captured, by Europeans.”” — Thomas Sowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The ending of the slave trade was one of many European policies imposed upon Africa by the conquerors.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“the British became the world's largest slaveholders in their Western Hemisphere colonies in the Caribbean.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade in commodity,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“This confirmed my suspicions that citizens were treated more like slaves than people.” — Rebecca Besser Copy Share Image
“The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the free market according to the laws of supply and demand. Private slave-trading companies sold shares on the Amsterdam, London and Paris stock exchanges. Middle-class Europeans looking for a good investment bought these shares. Relying on this money, the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Britain's historic decision to ban the international slave trade in the early nineteenth century entailed a large and long-run political and military commitment in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but as long… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Slaves were among the main commodities traded during this era, which preceded the era of European territorial conquests in sub-Saharan Africa.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are aware that… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“He pointed out that the so-called just wars between Africans were actually instigated by European slave-traders drumming up demand for captives.4 Meanwhile,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image