American slavery Quote by Bryan Stevenson

Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.

— Bryan Stevenson

The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery was the…

— Bryan Stevenson

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

— Arthur Bryant

“Slavery didn’t end when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Slavery still happens. Right now, today, this very second, there’s someone in chains, locked away…

— Jack Wilder

Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of…

— Neal Brennan

Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued…

— Henry Louis Gates

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

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

— Marisol Nichols

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed…

— Millard Fillmore

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But…

— Chuck D

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the…

— Abraham Lincoln