This country was formed for the white not for the black…

The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered…

— Samuel Ray Cummings

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own…

— James Madison

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very…

— Laurence M. Keitt

“African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes…

— Howard Zinn

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

— Jefferson Davis

I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against the government…

— John Brown Baldwin

“To have a museum chronicling the great crime that was African slavery in the United States of America would be to acknowledge that the…

— Susan Sontag

If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly…

— George W. Bush

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to…

— Lysander Spooner

My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going to have…

— Ann Coulter

Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should…

— Robert Dale Owen

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…

— Thomas Jefferson

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

— Gary L. Francione

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass