Quotes with anti-slavery

Quotes 101 till 120 of 123.

  • Alice Walker The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ezra Pound The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Carter G. Woodson This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Cat Stevens Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Algernon Sydney To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Bayard Taylor True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • George Orwell War is peace,
    Freedom is slavery,
    Ignorance is strength.
    1984
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Victor Hugo We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Angela Davis Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Camille Paglia What troubles me about the hostile workplace category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Herman Melville When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Maxim Gorky When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
    Maxim Gorky
    Russian and Soviet writer (0 - 1936)
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  • John Quincy Adams Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
    John Quincy Adams
    American statesman (1767 - 1848)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot be.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Michael Moore You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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  • William Blake You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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