Quotes About The Evils Of Slavery

#1. It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

John Quincy Adams

#2. The water and the wind will wear the wood down, until only water and wind remain.

Lisa Mantchev

#3. The old men know when an old man dies.

Ogden Nash

#4. Prunesquallor, as urbane as ever, had nevertheless something in his fish-like eyes that might almost be described as determination. One glance at his sister was sufficient to make him realize that to attempt to reason with her would be about as fruitful as to try to christianize a vulture.

Mervyn Peake

#5. Whatever it is, I'm not up for it." "Oh, Missee Felman, I feel so bad for ju,

Nora Ephron

#6. Never live life in your own shadow. Instead, break free and allow your soul to soar!

A.C. Willis

#7. It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.

Neal Shusterman

#8. Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Miguel De Cervantes

#9. There is absolutely nothing democratic about the "global arrangement" through which the West has been ruling over the rest of the world for decades and centuries.

Andre Vltchek

#10. This place isn't a refuge, it's a slave market. Why doesn't anyone see that?'
'Who says they don't see it? It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.'
'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.

Neal Shusterman

#11. Indeed, who has a greater right to public respect than the man of color fighting for freedom after having experienced all the horrors of slavery? To equal the most celebrated warriors he need only keep in mind all the evils he has suffered.

Tom Reiss

#12. The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

George Foreman

#13. Do you know how irritating you are?" she said. "Because if you don't, I've got time.

Thea Harrison

#14. Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which we now fear, originates chiefly from questions growing out of the respective rights of the different States and the unfortunate subject of slavery ...

John J. Crittenden

#15. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Noah Webster

#16. Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.

Michael Imperioli

#17. Do not run away from the problem.Face it, it'll go away.

Abhishek Kumar

#18. Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

#19. Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.

Peter Diamandis