END
SLAVERY
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"Peace
can only last where human rights are respected,
where the people are fed, and where individuals
and nations are free."
-- 14th
Dalai Lama
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Brute
force, no matter how strongly applied, can
never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
-- Dalai
Lama
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Human
Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the
right to pursue happiness and live in peace
and freedom.
-- 14th
Dalai Lama
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"In
the same way that we today think that the
slave trade and colonial exploitation were
inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of
acquiring riches, there is no doubt that coming
generations will think that our form of world
trade and distribution of the world's benefits
were just as inconceivable and inhuman."
-- Erik
Dammann
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Americans
are so enamored of equality that they would rather
be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom....
The subjection of individuals will increase amongst
democratic nations, not only in the same proportion
as their equality, but in the same proportion as
their ignorance.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
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“I
didn't know I was a slave until I found out
I couldn't do the things I wanted”
-- Frederick
Douglass
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There
is in this world no such force as the force
of a person determined to rise. The human soul
cannot be permanently chained.
-- W. E. B. DuBois
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"How
many years can some people exist
before
they're allowed to be free..."
-- Bob Dylan
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History
has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes
stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who
fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human
freedom, against political oppression and economic
slavery.
-- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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It
seems almost incredible that the advocates of
liberty should conceive of the idea of selling
a fellow creature to slavery.
-- James
Forten
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Enslave
the liberty of but one human being and the liberties
of the world are put in peril"
-- William
Lloyd Garrison
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Our
mission has been the protection of the wage-worker,
now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off
the long workday, which was killing him; to
improve the safety and the sanitary conditions
of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies,
petty or otherwise, which served to make his
existence a slavery.
-- Samuel Gompers
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It
doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of
a developing country] by burning down rainforests,
using slave labor and social repression to keep
things in place.
-- Hazel
Henderson
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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
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Yes,
a new day is here. Across America -- throughout
the entire world -- the forces of emancipation
are at work. We hear freedom's rising chorus:
“Let me live my own life. Let me live in peace.
Let me be free," say the people.
-- Hubert
Humphrey
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No
slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation,
and the master will benefit by freedom more than the
freed-man.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley
Freedom
Day
- February 1
End
Slavery Day
- December 2
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