He understood that, contrary to what most people think…

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

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

— Gary L. Francione

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

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

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

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

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

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Being a slave is to have nothing but still having something left to lose.”

— Lalita Tedemy

Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.…

— Booker T. Washington

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't…

— Aldis Hodge

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

— Ava DuVernay

“To say to the slave who has not been emancipated 'Do not behave as a slave' is to mock his enslavement. But to say…

— John Murray