The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution…

“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

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

I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a…

— Frank Zindler

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

“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

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of…

— Angela Davis

“The prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as…

— William H. Seward

“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United States makes…

— Gavin Wright

“Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1980, though its own government admitted that the practice continued nevertheless.”

— Thomas Sowell

All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of consent," and…

— Lysander Spooner