Slavery Still Exists Quotes

#1. Slavery still exists. And now that I know it does, I have no choice but to do something about it. Further, now that you know it does, you have no choice but to do something about it.

David Platt

#2. 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

#3. The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white bricklayers, and white painters will not work side by side with the blacks in the North but do it in almost every Southern State ...

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

John Coltrane

#5. I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Andy Warhol

#6. When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.

Aaron Rose

#9. Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Andrew Johnson

#10. Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.

Adam Braun

#11. We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

Evan Davis

#12. What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

Flora Tristan

#13. As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Attitude determines Altitude.
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain.

Stella Oladiran

#15. You don't need a fancy degree to dream big and make it happen. It's all in your head , your heart , your hands.

Rashmi Bansal

#16. I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

Abraham Lincoln

#17. Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things ...

Angelina Grimke

#18. The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution.

Victor Hugo

#19. Marriage is slavery, I said. And when God made us human - if God exists - He didn't intend for us to be slaves to each other.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#20. What was it my father used to say? she thought. "I am stronger than my trials." I am stronger than my trials.

Dan Wells

#21. Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.

Evan Spiegel

#22. And all we are waiting for is something worth waiting for.

Nicole Blackman

#23. Breathe.
Slow.
Observe.
Break the link between sensation and reaction.
Breathe into the gap between them.
Blind reaction is attachment.
Blind reaction is slavery.
Freedom exists in the gap.
Choice exists in the gap.
I exist in the gap.

Ramez Naam

#24. Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

Irene Peter

#25. In fact, we know full well today that it is futile to speak of liberty as long as economic slavery exists.

Pyotr Kropotkin

#26. Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.

Henry Cloud

#27. If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

Leonard Bacon

#28. Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the cycle.

Fred Seibert

#29. African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

Jefferson Davis

#30. I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

Bill Rancic

#31. There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics ... Man has reached the point where his impact on the climate can be as significant as nature's.

D. James Baker

#32. Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

Lisa Kristine