[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition…

“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something…

— C.S. Lewis

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible…

— Anonymous

Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a…

— Charles Darwin

I do think that some form of reparations for the descendants of American slavery would go a long way.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took…

— Frederick Douglass

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

— Octavia Butler

Slavery is a long slow process of dulling.

— Octavia Butler

“Banning the institution of slavery itself long remained only a distant hope in much of Africa and the Middle East, even after it was…

— Thomas Sowell

“Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and…

— Joy Degruy Leary

Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…

— Charles Darwin

“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon the bench…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

— Justin Simien

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

— Anonymous

A man without a sad story is a man with no wisdom.

— Temple Kay

But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third season -…

— Cillian Murphy