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Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their only perceived means of survival.) Millions of children work as prostitutes around the world. A third are male. One study revealed that over 50 per cent of prostitutes are the children of alcoholics or substance abusers, and 90 per cent are deflowered through incest or rape. Ninety-one per cent of prostitutes do not speak of the abuse. (The truth of life is told through the language of behavior.) Abused children suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, guilt, self-destructive impulses, suspicion, fear. Seventy-five per cent of prostitutes attempt suicide. (Imagine their scrapbook of memories.)

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Stichwörter: fear prostitution guilt rape slavery suspicion incest prostitutes children-of-alcoholics post-traumatic-stress-disorder abused-children juvenile-prostitutes parasuicide self-destructive-impulses substance-abusers suicide-attempts

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Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.

Shannon Celebi

Stichwörter: flowers slavery racism race-relations abolition abolitionist pretty-girls pretty-girl

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She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.

Shannon Celebi

Stichwörter: slavery race racism race-relations abolition white-people colored race-america

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The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

W.G. Sebald

Stichwörter: history capitalism economics slavery finance interest capital economic-history

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É impossível justificar os excessos do povo ao pegar em armas... Mas é realmente o povo a quem devemos imputar tudo, ou a seus opressores, que os mantiveram por tanto tempo na escravidão? Aquele que escolhe ser servido por escravos, e por escravos mal-tratados deve saber que preserva tanto sua propriedade quanto sua vida através da dominação, diferentemente de quem prefere os serviços de homens livres e bem tratados; e aquele que ceia ao som de lamentos de dor não deve, num momento de insurreição, reclamar que suas filhas foram violentadas e mortas, nem que cortaram a garganta de seus filhos. Quando tais males ocorrem, certamente são mais imputáveis à tirania dos grandes senhores do que à crueldade dos servos.

Arthur Young

Stichwörter: revolution slavery servanthood landlord

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Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have said before, is no ordinary wind. It is a raging hurricane against which the old order cannot stand [...] The great millions of Africa, and of Asia, have grown impatient of being hewers of wood and drawers of water, and are rebelling against the false belief that providence created some to be menials of others. Hence the twentieth century has become the century of colonial emancipation, the century of continuing revolution which must finally witness the total liberation of Africa from colonial rule and imperialist exploitation.

Kwame Nkrumah

Stichwörter: africa liberation imperialism exploitation rebellion slavery colonialism third-world

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Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us.

Thomas Paine

Stichwörter: common-sense slavery trickery subdue

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Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

Theodore Dwight Weld

Stichwörter: slavery

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What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?