1,063 Quotes About Slavery

I believe we must set up three children's colonies, the aim of these colonies is above all to furnish us with soldiers.

I wish you would feel how our ancestors felt as they were handed off from their families and put in dungeons and tortured. Some raped and killed.

In America Negroes do not have to be told what fascism is, We know.

When people say 'Angola is a prison built on a former plantation' it is often made as an unsettling observation not as a moral indictment. Is it because our collective understanding of slavery and its inherent violence is so limited? Or is it that violence experienced by Black people is thought less worthy of mourning? White supremacy enacts violence against Black people, but also numbs a whole country, black and white, so what would, in any other context, provoke our moral indignation.

Slavery broke the world in half, it broke it in every way. It broke Europe. It made them into something else, it made them slave masters, it made them crazy. You can’t do that for hundreds of years and it not take a toll. They had to dehumanize, not just the slaves but themselves . . . The idea of scientific racism suggests some serious pathology

How come white folks were always telling Black people to get over slavery because it was 150 or so years ago but they couldn’t get over their Christ who died 1,830 years before that?

America is the land of liberty for white people, but for the people of color it's Nazi Germany.

You can play one part in life, but you can't be that thing. You just playing it. You're not real.

Convention: a dog's collar.