Certainty Quote by David Swanson

My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going to have…

— Ann Coulter

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of…

— Angela Davis

“questions which none seemed able to answer :How is it that white folks have everything and we have nothing? Slavery-how and why did we…

— Chancellor Williams

“[T]he West did not invent slavery; the West ended slavery.”

— Pat Buchanan

“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of making war…

— Bruce Catton

In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual,…

— Richard J. Maybury

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

— Ron Paul

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one…

— Victor Hugo

The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery. Because we…

— Bryan Stevenson

“Slavery never ended it just evolved.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and…

— Hari Kunzru

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

— John Henrik Clarke