Quote by Colson Whitehead

“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

“A religious woman is a slave that advocates the slavery.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“I never will, I never can, worship a God who upholds the institution of slavery. Such a God I hate and defy. I neither…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Perhaps it was not really possible for slavery to die peacefully and quietly, while everyone waited hat in hand for the mills of God…

— Bruce Catton

“No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. But nobody wanted to speak on the…

— Colson Whitehead

“Give a slave slaves, and he will support slavery.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a most momentous…

— R.M. Ballantyne

“Quite so," answered the young lord. "It is the problem of slavery, and we try to solve it by amusing the slaves.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the…

— Steven Pinker

“The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner…

— Barry Unsworth