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When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown…

— Wynton Marsalis

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

— Mike Tyson

It's modern-day slavery.

— Adrian Peterson

The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house slave said,…

— Malcolm X

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and…

— Alex Haley

But the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. And America came along as the first country to end it within 150…

— Katie Pavlich

“ When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn…

— N. K. Jemisin

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

— Constance Baker Motley

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer…

— N.K. Jemisin

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

— I. F. Stone

In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing -…

— Colson Whitehead