David Byrne Quotes
We live in ugly times.
The British Empire had outlawed the slave trade and the United States had also done so. However, there was still a brisk slave trade where Black Africans were captured by Arab slavers and sold into slavery in Arabia. It was the open sore that had to be healed. See {609754}. He also used the phrase in his last letter, and it was engraved on his tomb in Westminster Abby. The Arab states were the last countries to legally abolish slavery in 1963—a century after this quotation. Still the anti slavery laws are weakly enforced so there is some slavery ongoing in the Middle East, Africa an parts of Asia still.
David Byrne is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, writer, music theorist, and filmmaker, who was a founding member and the principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.
