Connected Quote by Bryan Stevenson

I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in…

— Gillian Anderson

Enslaved people worked hard to preserve family ties and maintain kinship networks. They married, even as the law would not recognize their unions, and…

— Jamelle Bouie

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me,…

— Frederick Law Olmsted

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

— Alan Keyes

“Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

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

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking…

— David Rice

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was…

— David Oyelowo

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it…

— Lupita Nyong'o

“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for the profit…

— Isabel Wilkerson