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People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp

we rescue our tears from the sea
secure 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

Awareness is a flashlight that gives us a choice. — Tehya Sky

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

His flexible mind extended to take in his opponent's position and then snapped back like an elastic, with the illusion that it had covered ground. — Mary McCarthy

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 sea
they 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

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade. — John Wesley

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

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence. — Lao-Tzu

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