quotes about Slave Labor

last updated: November 28, 2023

There were stories coming out of Thailand that slave labor was being used to catch and process the seafood we eat. They were nearly all from Miramar. Because of reports of widespread labor abuses, several countries are now considering a ban on imports of Thai seafood.
-- Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

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If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of race relations is going to replace the race relations of slavery? Who is going to have power in the post-war South? The Emancipation Proclamation doesn't answer that question, but it throws [it] open.
-- Eric Foner

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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“Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself!”

Source : "Fictional character: The Doctor". 'Doctor Who' ('The Two Doctors'), 16 February - 2 March, 1985.
“I've been blessed to be one of those guys who's looked at as a fashion-forward type of guy.”
“Can one consider controversy without falling into it?”
“All men have an equal disposition for understanding.”

Source : "De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties". Book by Claude Adrien Helvétius, p. 286, 1758.
“I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.”

Source : 1796 'The Hasty-Pudding', canto1
“Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.”
“We deal with our mind from morning till evening and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.”

Source : "Want to be happy? Slow down". Interview with Guy Raz, ideas.ted.com. Januart 23, 2015.
“There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.”
“As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.”
“What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.”