1,063 Quotes About Slavery

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.

You may get me to say the word, but know this, you will never truly own me. That right belongs to my real master. You may take his symbol off my hip, but there will always be a scar that reminds us both what was there. And you might take his collar off my throat, but you'll never erase his name from my soul.

Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and consequence to any other incidence of human enslavement.

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

The brightest skies are always foreshadowed by dark clouds

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are