The belief that skin pigmentation has anything at all to do with integrity, intelligence, creativity or any kind of skill or human rights has long been discredited. Such a claim now seems absurd. (Peter Fryer, 1986)
"Barriers or walls", according to Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sachs, "are erected by people who are weak and insecure about themselves"
Children Share Their Views
http://www.bbc.co.uk//worldclass/freedom_my_story.shtml
Reflections on a Slave Pit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBTErUDIcz8
"It's as if slavery is a kind of compulsion for human societies.
"People go back again and again to treating people as objects, as possessions, and I don't think we can simply sit back and say it's a thing of the past and no more."
"All those modern forms of slavery: economic slavery - debt slavery in effect - the slavery of sex trafficking, these things are still with us."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/6464345.stm
Abolition
http://www.bbc.co.uk/abolition/
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