15+ International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

15+ International Day for the Abolition of Slavery – The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is celebrated every year on 2 December all over the world since 1986. The focus of this day is to raise awareness about slavery and to end all forms of slavery that exist in the present world. Such as trafficking in persons, sexual exploitation, the worst form of child labour, forced marriage and the forced recruitment of children for use in armed conflict.

So far the world has made great progress, yet a large number of people are victims of slavery. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery. And more than 150 million children are subject to child labour, which accounts for about one in ten children worldwide.

1.”Death is natural to a man, but slavery unnatural; and the moment you strip a man of his liberty you strip him of all his virtues: you convert his heart into a dark hole, in which all the vices conspire against you.” -Edmund Burke

2.”There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.” -Helen Keller

3.”Slavery is theft — theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.” -Kevin Bales

4.”Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves” -Abraham Lincoln

5.”Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.” -Abraham Lincoln

6.”Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” -Frederick Douglass

7.”Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery. ” -Aeschylus

8.Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
Abraham Lincoln

9.“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
Sylvia Plath,

10.“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
Abraham Lincoln

11.Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Henry David Thoreau

12.“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
William Wilberforce

13.“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
George Gordon Byron

14.“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
Frederick Douglass

15.“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
C.S. Lewis,

16.“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
Booker T. Washington

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