I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the…

Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman…

— Dawn Johnsen

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

— Victor Hugo

“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal…

— Assata Shakur

The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery was the…

— Bryan Stevenson

The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery. Because we…

— Bryan Stevenson

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can…

— Ayn Rand

By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government…

— Strom Thurmond

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

— Noam Chomsky

“I considered the practice the equivalent of involuntary servitude and a breach of faith with those affected, and I was determined to end it.…

— Robert M. Gates

When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to…

— Star Parker

“Convicts had no meaningful legal rights at this time and no effective redress. They were understood, quite literally, to be slaves of the state.…

— Michelle Alexander

“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of offenses--like child…

— Amy Watkins

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured…

— Lerone Bennett, Jr

The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868…

— Eustace Mullins