Disconnected Quote by Bryan Stevenson

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across…

— Anonymous

The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty -…

— Sarah Churchwell

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

— Ava DuVernay

I thought the law was fascinating and consequential. And as much as I loved the arts, I always really wanted to do work that…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

— Colson Whitehead

“Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains—whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. You must…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I am a descendant of slaves. My great grandmother Mary Thomas, born in 1865, was the child of a slave. That is just three…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.

— David Batstone

I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I loved thinking about how the law could be used to help others, how to interpret it that way. I think that probably comes…

— Catherine Cortez-Masto

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way,…

— Jennifer Granholm

I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr