Chinua Achebe Quotes

We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

The clothes make the man. The children working in sweatshops make the clothes. Therefore, the children working in sweatshops make the man.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

Before being free, it is necessary to be just

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

We all have a responsibility to create a just society

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

To be human you must bear witness to justice.

Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to free its victims and to eradicate this crime that affects all of us, from individual families to the worldwide community.