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Slavery Quotes

The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black people as well, and the roles they're meant to play... I'm aware of it, as a person of color.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

History People Slavery Color Black

The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, 'Gladiator' suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial.

Freedom Fight Slavery Proud Story

Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.

Great Peace Man War Effort Slavery

Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.

Chadwick Boseman

Slavery Colonialism Cousin

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

History Slavery Something Us Affects

The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Time People Slavery Black Want

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

Stephen Douglas

Slavery Free You Done Important Up

Very early on in the process of trying to sell 'The Summer Prince,' I was told, 'Slavery seems to be very important to this society - is that on purpose?' Well, duh.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

Purpose Slavery Society Process Sell

The French Revolution ends slavery unilaterally. And it does so at this moment when the British, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Americans - all of the other major powers - keep slavery. And the fact is that it's almost bankrupting the French Colonial Empire.

Moment Slavery Revolution Empire

Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of people because of Ali.

Experience People Slavery Black Out

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Life Fight Slavery Action Reaction

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

James A. Garfield

Slavery Sin Said Blood Without May

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

Mary Harris Jones

Child Slavery Responsible Everyone

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

Slavery Free Back Go Know Never

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

Michael Johnson

Me Slavery Believe Difficult Us

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

Power Man Slavery Civilization Prove

When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Slavery Story Attention Copy More

I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.

Hope Slavery Compromise Will Sides

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

Slavery Defeat Teach Up Standing

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Power Slavery Need Defense Us Save

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Government Slavery Reason Without

Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

War People Slavery Saying Generation

Our people historically have gone through a lot. That is our story. You can trace it all the way back to slavery. But it is incumbent upon everyone, no matter what field, to make it easier on the next generation.

People Slavery Story Generation You

I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history.

History Slavery Ancient Got Taught

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