Mess Quote by Colson Whitehead

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

— Paul Mooney

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Even when I became cognizant of this societal problem in this country, I asked my father and my mother if they knew anything that…

— David C. Driskell

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution…

— Thomas Jefferson

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

— Abraham Lincoln

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

— Edward Ball

I am a firm believer in slavery.

— Brigham Young

Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are…

— Colson Whitehead