15 People Who Should Have Thought Twice Before Using Slavery To Make A Point

This is never a good idea, people.

On the national debt.

On the national debt.

"Our free stuff today is being paid for by taking money from our children and borrowing from China. When that money comes due — and this isn’t racist — but it’ll be like slavery when that note is due. We are going to beholden to the foreign master." — SARAH PALIN

On abortion.

On abortion.

“If you go back to Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War, he looked at the Civil War as a sort of a national penance for slavery; the evil of slavery and letting it go on. And the founders knew how bad it was. We have other things in this country today and abortion is one of them." — KEN CUCCINELLI

On being cruel to animals.

On being cruel to animals.

“Child labor, human slavery, and the oppression of women all came to be opposed by our society, thanks to the passion and hard work of human rights activists. We hope that PETA’s display will help people see that nonhuman animals suffer today just as humans once did, and that we can all make small changes in our lives to help make animal oppression a thing of the past." — PETA President INGRID NEWKIRK

On eating animals.

On eating animals.

"Eating animals is like slavery — it has to end now." — PETA associate director MIMI BEKHECHI


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