1,063 Quotes About Slavery


  • Author Eveth Colley
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    With time, the horror of slavery becomes history. Yet today, my heart weeps with deep misery for the brutality of our humanity. Tomorrow, I pray for healing and restoration for the generations of angry souls. Souls of the villains and the victims living in today's society, with the ghost of the past presiding in the pretense of the present.

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  • Author Ray Anyasi
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    Ottes have been hung just for fetching with a dirty pot. None has been hung for swimming because none had been that stupid.”- Sari

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  • Author Ray Anyasi
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    Ottes die for anything, but while I was in there," she nodded at the gently flowing river, "I felt for a brief moment what freedom might taste like.”- Sari

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  • Author Aristotle
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    The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

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  • Author Ella Baker
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    I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.

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  • Author John Brown
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    Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

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