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 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 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 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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