American citizens Quote by Booker T. Washington

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

— Freddie Gibbs

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.

— Butterfly McQueen

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

— Ava DuVernay

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

— William H. Seward

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the…

— Jane Porter

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

— Pat Robertson

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.

— Joseph R. Bartlett

Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

— Barack Obama

It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves.

— Patricia Hampl

Slavery was our nation's original sin.

— William Barr

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein…

— John Oliver Killens