William Wilberforce on slavery

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• This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime.

  Mike Tysonborn 1966

  • America

• Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.

  Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968

  • Race

• He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

  Augustine of Hippo354–430

  • Freedom
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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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