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en We must demonstrate the political will and assume the responsibility for the historical wrongs that are owed to the victims of slavery, that an apology be extended by states which actively practiced and benefited themselves from slavery.

en We know that we cannot change the past, and we can't make up for the wrongs of slavery. But we can learn from our past, and begin a stronger dialogue about slavery and the experience of African-Americans in our country.

en The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
  Oscar Wilde

en Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. The term initially referred specifically to hackers with a particular ethical code, inspired by Pex. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
  Victor Hugo

en It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery.

en We all grew up with images of 'Gone With the Wind' and we thought slavery was a Southern institution, but for 200 years slavery was a dominant force in New York.

en Some of these men served three years after slavery. It takes a real Texan to stand up to adversity, bigotry and hatred to represent a state that held you in slavery. They should be honored appropriately.

en Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
  Abraham Lincoln

en I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death
  Frederick Douglass

en Sometimes it worries me if people think that this is a movie about slavery, or it's a movie that's going to challenge you on the level of how you feel about slavery that they're going to resist seeing it.

en I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was the first person ever to make a formal apology to black people for slavery, which was very warm and appreciated. But African-Americans haven't healed at all . The wound is still very open. And seeing the differences in how people live, it just puts salt in it- constantly . Seeing the way we're treated within these United States ... it burns you even more every day.

en The more I read about this episode, the more I realized how important it was to our understanding of the war; it wasn't just an interesting little footnote. After all, how could the war be about slavery if the Confederates were willing to sacrifice slavery in order to win the war? And it turned out that there was a cornucopia of information on that and related subjects available in letters, government documents, and newspaper articles and editorials.

en Slavery holds few men fast; the greatest number hold fast their slavery
  Seneca

en If we are going to abolish modern-day slavery, then we have to put the traffickers out of business. That's going to demand, unfortunately, the cooperation of the victims.


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