William Harper Quotes

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

I have never been able to procure sufficient slaves to cultivate my lands and that of any guilt that attached to this trade we [planters] were at most but partners with the Parliament which tolerated it, and the country which profited so much from it.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

Barbary is hell – So, alas, is all America south of Pennsylvania; for oppression, and slavery, and misery, are there!

A world divided into blocs, in which instead of solidarity, imperialism and exploitation hold sway, can only be a world structured in sin.

Increase of slaves in this colony is injurious to the poor and inconvenient

Slavery is the first form of Globalization in which America participated.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

The slave system is one of constant danger, distrust, suspicion, and watchfulness. It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for defense, to the lowest degree of which human nature is capable, to guard against mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies which otherwise might be employed in national development and aggrandizement.

Human slavery was the precondition for the rise of higher education in America.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values

Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.

It is impossible for white men to live with the coloured races without adopting a conviction that…they have the right to command the services of the less civilized.