America Quote by Angela Davis

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

We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.

— Marisol Nichols

There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and thus, because…

— Kenya Barris

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

— Nina Simone

“Even when the 13th Amendment was passed to abolish slavery with an exception of servitude as a penalty for criminal conviction, the introduction of…

— Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele

“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

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

Death is better than slavery.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

— Chrystia Freeland

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

Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them…

— Lorne Greene