Catholic Church Quotes

Twin relics of barbarism – polygamy and slavery.

Slavery is right, just, and lawful and consequently practiced every day.

What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

We will make slavery history very soon. We will make child labor history very soon.

Societies cannot honestly support women as builders of the new economies while tolerating a market in which criminals sell them as commodities.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Liberty in America means the power to flog slaves, and to work them for nothing.

The state should look into this, as other nations do: see to it that nobles do not take the lives of their subjects at will, or burden them with unjust toil - as if they were dumb cattle!

I am a firm believer in slavery.

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our soil or another nation's.

Slavery doesn't have any positives.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.