#enslavement — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Lincoln

Slavery is doomed, and that within a few years. Even Judge Douglas admits it to be an evil, and an evil can’t stand discussion. In discussing it we have taught a great many thousands of people to hate it who had never given it a thought before. What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself. What a skunk wants to do is to keep snug under the barn in daytime, when men are around with shotguns.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Interview (1859-09-17?) with David R. Locke, Columbus, Ohio

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/4124…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamllincoln #abelincoln #attention #deplorable #discussion #enslavement #evil #exposure #publicity #reputation #skunk #slavery #smell #stench #visibility

@AlJazeera @africa-news-AlJazeera Does that include continuing #torture, #enslavement, #sexualabuse & other forms of #mistreatment of #African #migrants? The #EU wants #Libya to keep these migrants within its #borders, or return them to their home #countries. Under no circumstances are they to be allowed to cross the #Mediterranean & reach the EU.

A quotation from Lincoln

   If A. can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right, enslave B. — why may not B. snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A?
   You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color, then; the lighter having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a fairer skin than your own.
   You do not mean color exactly? — You mean the whites are intellectually the superior of blacks, and, therefore, have the right to enslave them? Take care again. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with an intellect superior to your own.
   But, say you, it is a question of interest; and, if you can make it your interest, you have the right to enslave another. Very well. And if he can make it his interest, he has the right to enslave you.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Note (1854-07-01?), On Slavery (fragment)

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/5166…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #debate #enslavement #justification #racism #rationalization #reasoning #slavery #superiority

⬆️ @Geri

>> #Israel requiring extra territory… like #GolanHeights and Southern #Lebanon, is the same sort of demand #Stalin asked for with #Poland, #Hungary, #Czechoslovakia, #Romania et al at #Potsdam.

It is also what drove #Nazi #Lebensraum ideology to establish a Greater #German Reich with territorial expansion into #Europe.

They said it was necessary for their survival, and existing populations would have to be removed permanently through mass #deportation, #extermination, or #enslavement

⬆️ @Geri

>> #Israel requiring extra territory… like #GolanHeights and Southern #Lebanon, is the same sort of demand #Stalin asked for with #Poland, #Hungary, #Czechoslovakia, #Romania et al at #Potsdam.

It is also what drove #Nazi #Lebensraum ideology to establish a Greater #German Reich with territorial expansion into #Europe.

They said it was necessary for their survival, and existing populations would have to be removed permanently through mass #deportation, #extermination, or #enslavement

The histories of #enslavement, #displacement and organised #theft are foundational to the modern world - the #UNdeclaration "calls on all nations to recognise what happened, teach its history honestly, and remember the victims"

How utterly disturbing that @EUCommission @Bundesregierung refused to do so... #Europe continuing on its exploitative trajectory, no lessons learned 😭

#history #culpability #reparations #europe #africa #ghana #EU #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #UN

https://theconversation.com/the-transatlantic-slave-trade-is-the-gravest-crime-against-humanity-why-the-un-declaration-matters-279218

‘People nowadays feel like they don’t matter, really crushing and soul destroying to live like that.
It was Margareth #Thatcher who said it herself: “The method is #economics, the object is to change the soul” The rich (political right wing) know this and want to do this’
#enslavement #coercion #neoliberalism

“The trafficking of #enslaved #Africans and the centuries of #racialized chattel #enslavement that followed have not been resolved” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

U.S. Rejects Vote to Recognize...

“The trafficking of #enslaved #Africans and the centuries of #racialized chattel #enslavement that followed have not been resolved” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

U.S. Rejects Vote to Recognize...

“The trafficking of #enslaved #Africans and the centuries of #racialized chattel #enslavement that followed have not been resolved” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

U.S. Rejects Vote to Recognize...

“The trafficking of #enslaved #Africans and the centuries of #racialized chattel #enslavement that followed have not been resolved” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

U.S. Rejects Vote to Recognize...

“The trafficking of #enslaved #Africans and the centuries of #racialized chattel #enslavement that followed have not been resolved” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

U.S. Rejects Vote to Recognize...