Bitterness Quote by David Oyelowo

I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that…

— Ani DiFranco

Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American…

— David Swanson

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

— Paul Mooney

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes…

— Lisa Kristine

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and…

— Bryan Stevenson

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

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

— Chrystia Freeland

I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I…

— Zach Braff

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

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