Slave Labor Quotes:

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

topic: Country, Slave Labor, Abuse, Thai

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.

topic: War, Slave Labor, Race, Emancipation Proclamation, Post War

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.160, Fordham Univ Press

topic: Inspiration, Slave Labor, Slavery, American Slavery, Slavery In America

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

- Malcolm X

topic: Slave Labor, Years, African American

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

- Nikola Tesla

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Slave Labor, Civilization, Twenties, Ancient Civilizations

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

- Malcolm X

topic: Coffee, Years, Pay, Slave Labor

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.395, Penguin

topic: Mean, Men, Rights, Slave Labor

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

- David Brion Davis

source: David Brion Davis (2008). “Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World”, p.6, Oxford University Press

topic: Faces, Slave, Contradiction, Slave Labor

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

- Kailash Satyarthi

source: "Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize". www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2014.

topic: Children, Lifetime, Child Labor, Child Labour, Slave Labor

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Life, Strong, Freedom, States Rights, Abolition

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

- Cecil Rhodes

topic: Land, Raw Materials, Workplace, Colony, Surplus

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

- Norbert Wiener

source: Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society”, p.112, Hachette UK

topic: Machines, Remember, Slave, Slave Labor

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

- Steve Forbes

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Eye, Chinese, Spy, Keeping Silent, Blind Eyes

I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

- Alec Baldwin

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Zero, Government, Regulation, Government Regulation, Slave Labor

One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.

- Michael Parenti

topic: Children, Dirty, Gun, Old Money, Scabs

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War ii for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slave like inequalities.

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: War, Animal, Color, World War I, Melting Pot

How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or her work, while work should offer a service to people so they may have dignity. I ask my brothers and sisters in faith and all men and women of good will for a decisive choice to combat trafficking in persons, which includes "slave labor."

- Pope Francis

topic: Brother, Men, People, Slave Labor

The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: "Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers". Book by David W. Bartlett, 1856.

topic: Cheer, Children, Book, Keel, Respectability

The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was not economic, besides being morally wrong. Slavery was destined to be abolished, whether for economic reasons or moral reasons matters not, but the international intriguers were not going to wait for voluntary abolition to rob them of their trump card.

- John Coleman

topic: War, Waiting, Cards, Slave Labor

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

- Jhonen Vasquez

topic: Book, Moments, Slave, Compilation, Slave Labor

Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Home, Black And White, Competition, Slave Labor

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

- Charles Guggenheim

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tunnels, Looks, Digging, Slave Labor

We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless...We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action...No action.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Love, Children, Educational, Atrocities Committed, Physical Abuse

I'm focusing on quality versus quantity - a nicer tee-shirt with organic cotton and buying just one or two instead of five that are cheaper but made with GMO cotton, which is hard on Earth, sewn by slave labor, shipped all the way from China on boats that use lots of oil and can kill whales with ship strikes and sold by (some) companies that could treat their

- Kristin Bauer van Straten

topic: Two, Oil, Gmos, Tee Shirt, Slave Labor

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

topic: Country, Genius, Burning, Rainforest, Burning Down