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* "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

* For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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

* "There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road."
-- Mohandas Gandhi

* "There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

* 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

* "Nobody's free until everybody's free."
-- Fannie Lou Hamer

* 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

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