Quotes On Transatlantic Slave Trade

#1. There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.

Kevin Bales

#2. We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

George W. Bush

#3. When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

Seneca The Younger

#4. We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

Jacqueline Novogratz

#5. To lose everything is not the worst that can happen."
"It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing.

Daniel Abraham

#6. The present moment is the pivotal point of power.

Debbie Ford

#7. That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.

David Amram

#8. Love those thoughts,
those thoughts of love,
those delights for heart,
tickler of life, twinkles in eyes.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.

Velda Johnston

#10. Nothing - Elder, Next Generation, immortal or human - was completely indestructible. Not even Areop-Enap. Perenelle herself had once brought an ancient temple down on the spider's head and it had shrugged off the attack - yet could it survive billions of poisonous flies?

Michael Scott