Quotes About The Atlantic Slave Trade

#1. Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.

Ronald Reagan

#2. We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

Jesse Helms

#3. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together. Miss

Mark Twain

#4. Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.

Bryan Stevenson

#5. At the end of the Middle Ages, slavery was almost unknown in Christian Europe. During the early modern period, the rise of European capitalism went hand in hand with the rise of the Atlantic slave trade.

Yuval Noah Harari

#6. 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

#7. Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

Jamaica Kincaid

#8. The mist wishes to have the sun but what does the sun do - it burns so fiercely that the mist disappears.

Sumeetha Manikandan

#9. I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#10. I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.

Boy George

#11. I just there for two days and that thought of what last words I could say to the firing squad. As good a pastime as any.

Ayn Rand

#12. I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the "simple" things in life. Don't try to understand me; you won't figure me out. But you're free to like me the way I am.

Marwa Ayad

#13. When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.

Vince Gill

#14. It hurts because there is no alternative to Love.

Himanshu Chhabra

#15. As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we're on location and shooting at night, it's just magic. I got to do that so many times working on 'Vampire Diaries' that it filled my hat.

Taylor Kinney

#16. Just as the Atlantic slave trade did not stem from hatred towards Africans, so the modern animal industry is not motivated by animosity. Again, it is fuelled by indifference.

Yuval Noah Harari

#17. There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Lisa Kristine

#18. That which proceeds from a man's soul shall shape his soul; that which proceeds from his speech shall shape his speech, and deeds that proceed from his body shall shape his body.

Yukio Mishima