Important Quote by Cornel West

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

— Freddie Gibbs

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

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be…

— Abraham Lincoln

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Paul Mooney

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

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza

There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were…

— Edward Ball

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little…

— John Ridley

“Employment is the biggest form of slavery”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.

— Ludacris