| *
"Peace
can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and
where individuals and nations are free."
-- 14th Dalai
Lama Brute
force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire
for freedom.
-- Dalai
Lama *
Human
Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live
in peace and freedom.
--
14th Dalai Lama |  |
 |
"In the same way that
we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and
inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there is no doubt that coming
generations will think that our form of world trade and distribution of the world's
benefits were just as inconceivable and inhuman."
-- Erik Dammann
|
Americans
are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal
in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic
nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion
as their ignorance.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
*
“I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted”
-- Frederick Douglass |
|
| There is in this
world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul
cannot be permanently chained.
-- W.
E. B. DuBois |  |
 | "How
many years can some people exist
before
they're allowed to be free..."
-- Bob
Dylan |
History
has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and
vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom,
against political oppression and economic slavery.
-- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
 |
It seems almost incredible
that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow
creature to slavery.
-- James Forten
|
| Enslave
the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril"
-- William Lloyd Garrison |
| Our
mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages;
to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety
and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies, petty
or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
-- Samuel
Gompers |
|
| It doesn't
take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests,
using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.
-- Hazel Henderson |
We
say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true.
Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
-- Victor Hugo
| 
|
Yes,
a new day is here. Across America -- throughout the entire world -- the forces
of emancipation are at work. We hear freedom's rising chorus: “Let me live my
own life. Let me live in peace. Let me be free," say the people.
-- Hubert Humphrey |
No
slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit
by freedom more than the freed-man.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley
Freedom
Day
- February 1
End
Slavery Day
- December 2
