Mary Beth Whitehead Quotes

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

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?

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

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

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.

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

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people.

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.

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

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.

Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

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.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today! So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.