1,063 Quotes About Slavery
- Author Angela Davis
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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- Author Dinesh D'Souza
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Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.
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- Author Frederick Douglass
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I hear the mournful wail of millions!
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- Author Bob Edwards
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But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
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- Author Chiwetel Ejiofor
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In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
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- Author George Eliot
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Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
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- Author Angelina Grimke
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One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.
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- Author Emma Goldman
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As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.
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- Author Franz Grillparzer
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Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.
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