Slave Trade Quotes
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we rescue our tears from the seasecure them by writ — M. NourbeSe Philip
In the end, Edwards wrestled with slavery, defending the institution within the colonies but also calling for the end of the Atlantic slave trade.
— Richard A. Bailey
Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.
— David Livingstone
at the height of the British slave trade, in the 1790s, one large slave vessel left England for Africa every other day.
— Bernard Bailyn
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Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
— Benjamin Franklin
All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly ...
— Frances Trollope
they ask for water we give them seathey ask for bread we give them sea
they ask for life we give them only the sea — M. NourbeSe Philip
Politics does not concern itself who should rule us. It is about what kind of rule people should have.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
— T.S. Mathews
You're my prey tonight.
— Carla H. Krueger
I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.
— Lawrence Hill
Sugar gave rise to the slave trade; now sugar has enslaved us.
— Jeff O'Connell
Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.
— Wilferd Peterson
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.
— Jamaica Kincaid
She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her.
— Carla H. Krueger
Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
— Frederick W. Smith
To hold a pen is to be at war.
— Voltaire
That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.
— Lawrence Hill
In a weird way scientists understand things on a higher level but it takes a lot of dedication and a lot of time.
— Michael Pitt
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 trade.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
A win would be better than a draw.
— Denis Law
I can love what is broken.
— Carla H. Krueger
No knowledge about self is self-slavery!
— Israelmore Ayivor
God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.
— William Wilberforce
I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.
— Lawrence Hill
Knowledge shall set the mind free.
— Abhijit Naskar